Fraggle Red
RED!
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea), Amazon & Beyond Cloud Forest Aviary,
Miami Metrozoo, Miami, FL
Thanks for the ID, Buckeye.. So this is a Pompadour Cotinga, I had no clue. Very posh name, but then it's an amazing looking bird. I love the color. Now I really want to have red hair again... LOL.
I saw this bird sitting in the shade and took a shot, more because it was sitting there and posing than anything else. I couldn't really make out it's color, it looked kinda brownish to me, until I looked at the LCD screen. Wow!
It came out to the feeder later and it was really that red, I didn't fake the colors.
The Pompadour Cotingas are South American birds from the Cotingidae family. The coloration of the Cotingas is from true pigmentation, not the more common prismatic feather structure. They are usually seen alone but pairs are common. They generally do not fly with mixed-species flocks.
The Pompadour Cotinga averages 20 cm in length and 65 gm in weight. The eyes are white to yellowish white. Both sexes are plump and short-tailed. The males are a glistening wine red color with white flight feathers narrowly tipped in black. The elongated and stiff greater wing coverts are wine red with white shafts partly covering the flight feathers. The females are mainly gray and paler below. The throat and belly are grayish white, with the wings and tail dusky. Greater wing coverts and inner flight feathers are broadly edged in white. The juveniles are like the female but with dark eyes.
RED!
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea), Amazon & Beyond Cloud Forest Aviary,
Miami Metrozoo, Miami, FL
Thanks for the ID, Buckeye.. So this is a Pompadour Cotinga, I had no clue. Very posh name, but then it's an amazing looking bird. I love the color. Now I really want to have red hair again... LOL.
I saw this bird sitting in the shade and took a shot, more because it was sitting there and posing than anything else. I couldn't really make out it's color, it looked kinda brownish to me, until I looked at the LCD screen. Wow!
It came out to the feeder later and it was really that red, I didn't fake the colors.
The Pompadour Cotingas are South American birds from the Cotingidae family. The coloration of the Cotingas is from true pigmentation, not the more common prismatic feather structure. They are usually seen alone but pairs are common. They generally do not fly with mixed-species flocks.
The Pompadour Cotinga averages 20 cm in length and 65 gm in weight. The eyes are white to yellowish white. Both sexes are plump and short-tailed. The males are a glistening wine red color with white flight feathers narrowly tipped in black. The elongated and stiff greater wing coverts are wine red with white shafts partly covering the flight feathers. The females are mainly gray and paler below. The throat and belly are grayish white, with the wings and tail dusky. Greater wing coverts and inner flight feathers are broadly edged in white. The juveniles are like the female but with dark eyes.