Support for Fitz falcon malar stripe findings - May 2025

This blog post discusses the theory and findings concerning a potential link between falcon malar stripes and solar glare. This paper by former MSc student, Michelle Vrettos, Chevonne Reynolds and Arjun Amar and this one by two academics from Wageningen University in the Netherlands were both published recently and support each other's findings. See the blog post, by one of the Wageningen authors, Dr Jente Ottenburghs, for more detail about the two studies and their findings. Here is the original Fitz post about Arjun and team's study.