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.
You may be experiencing the Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect is one of the internetâs recently popular conspiracy theories that has been messing with all of our brains. This phenomenon is when thousands of people with no relation to each other have the exact same collective misremembering of the same event.