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Previous work has shown that the physiological and genetic mechanisms that underlie presence or absence of secondary sexual characters in birds are highly diverse across the avian clade. Hormones such as estrogen and testosterone are known to have important impacts on the development and regulation of plumage coloration across an individual\u2019s lifetime, but the distribution of what we know about hormones and dichromatism, relative to the distribution of dichromatic taxa, is confined to a few well-studied taxa. Here, we review current knowledge of hormonal influences on dichromatism and reconstruct the ancestral states of dichromatism across over 8800 species of birds to highlight where further research is needed. We find that, though two decades have passed since the last major review of hormonal influences on dichromatism, our working knowledge of how hormones influence dichromatism is still functionally and taxonomically limited. 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