Many fruits and seeds use UV reflectance to advertise themselves to seed-dispersing birds. The use of UV color range in insects may play a role in avian foraging as well.

The birds are about 20 to 22 inches long, according to Audubon, about the size of a mallard duck. Adults have long necks and legs, a color pattern of chestnut, black and gray, and have pink bills.

The Ohio Division of Wildlife alerted this week that a rare bird was spotted in Ohio. A lazuli bunting was spotted in Megis County, according to a post on the agency’s Facebook page.

ATHENS, Ohio — The Southeast Ohio History Center Lyceum Speaker Series presents a program on Birds of Ohio – Then and Now with Bob Scott Placier at noon May 15. The program will be at the ...