Other birds may be more attracted to the colors of their own plumage as those could indicate a potential mate or another bird that is surviving well. 1  Most bright colors, however, can be used to attract birds, with certain bird species being more attracted to particular shades. 1  Red and Pink: Hummingbirds. 2  Orange: Orioles, hummingbirds. 3  Yellow: Goldfinches, warblers, hummingbirds.  Blue: Bluebirds, jays.
This phenomenon is called the founder effect. The founder effect is generically a loss of genetic diversity. But specifically, it refers to limited genetic diversity that occurs when a small group of individuals from a genetically diverse population of some species migrates away and forms a new colony.
In addition to founder effects, the new population is often a very small population and so shows increased sensitivity to genetic drift, an increase in inbreeding, and relatively low genetic variation.s a result of the loss of genetic variation, the new population may be distinctively different, both genotypically and phenotypically, from the parent population from which it is derived. In extreme cases, the founder effect is thought to lead to the speciation and subsequent evolution of new species.