#Blue Cotinga

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[1370/10977] Blue Coua - Coua caerulea

Order: Cuculiformes (cuckoos) Family: Cuculidae Genus: Coua (couas)

Photo credit: Dubi Shapiro via Macaulay Library

[na-bird-of-the-day]

beak or tweet!

A blue cotinga for you, friend!

[usedtobeguest123]

Toñito's friends are his friends.

[toyastales]

Turquoise Cotinga

Photographer: Andrey Navarro

[sketches-for-nobody]

[cronchyradish]

rips my shirt apart gGUAAGHH turacos and cotingas are both SO UNDERRATED!!!

[feather-bone]

[ID: an illustration, digital painting over watercolor, of a bright blue bird with a purple throat patch. It’s perched on a branch on a leafy green background. End.]

Spangled cotinga! Colorful fella from the Amazon. This month I’m focusing on animals that hang out in the emergent layer of the rainforest, so expect lots of colorful feathers.

[audible-smiles]

Blue Birds of Happiness

Blue is an extra-fun color for birds to be, because, as you may have heard, it is not created by a pigment. Blue feathers (and the blue scales on butterfly wings, and the blue irises of some humans) are structural, meaning that the color is created by the physical properties of the living tissue, which are arranged in such a way that they reflect the short wavelengths of blue light. Often this is paired with a dark pigment which absorbs other colors of light and makes the blue 'pop'. Look at all the tints and shades they can make!

Mountain bluebird

2. Himalayan bluetail

3. Blue nuthatch

4. Blue jay

5. Indigo bunting

6. Great blue turaco

7. Tree swallow

8. Ultramarine flycatcher

9. Hyacinth macaw

10. Glaucous-blue grosbeak

11. Belted kingfisher

12. Blue dacnis

13. Taiwan blue-magpie

14. Shining honeycreeper

15. Siberian blue robin

16. Blue whistling-thrush

17. African blue flycatcher

18. White-throated magpie jay

19. Black-naped monarch

20. Blue paradise flycatcher

21. Cerulean warbler

22. Woodland kingfisher

23. Indian peafowl

24. Little blue heron

25. Philippine fairy-bluebird

26. Pinyon jay

27. Blackish-blue seedeater

28. Plum-throated cotinga

29. Deep-blue flowerpiercer

30. Blue coua

[thegurlwhoisntthere]

Because I’m feeling passive aggressive today, here’s a list of birds by colors they showed up for by google search for the batfam fandom when they try to come up with alternate names for Gotham’s Vigilantes:

Green:

HoneyCreeper

Macaw

Sparrow

Tanager

Vireo

Kingfisher

Kinglet

Greenfinch

Warbler

Siskin

Turaco

Eurylaimidae

Hummingbird

Yellow:

Goldfinch

Meadowlark

Warbler

Tanager

Verdin

Sicalis

Oriole

Cape Weaver

Icterid

Red:

Cardinal

Tanager

Finch

Flycatcher

Redpoll

Chaffinch

Rosefinch

Trogon

Ibis

Firefinch

Sunbird

Woodpecker

HoneyCreeper

‘Apapane

Blue:

Bluebird

Songbird

Thrush

Cyanocitta

Parula

Gnatcatcher

HoneyCreeper

Mockingbird

Warbler

Niltava

Tanager

Flycatcher

Dacnis

Magpie

Purple:

Starling

HoneyCreeper

Hummingbird

Gallinule

Sabrewing

Cotinga

Woodnymph

Swamphen

Thornbill

Sunbird

Finch

Flycatcher

Fairywren

Scimitarbill

Turaco

Dove

Woodstar

Tanager

Sheartail

Mountaingem

Carib

Violetear

Plovercrest

Cochoa

Grackle

Kingfisher

Black:

Blackbird

Raven

Icterid

Grackle

Songbird

Crow

Starling

Cowbird

Magpie

Phoebe

Phainopepla

Ani

Passerine

Oystercatcher

Vulture

Cormorant

Rook

Warbler

Turnstone

Jackdaw

I’m sure there’s more, but I’ve seen too many fics where they try to rename them and it’s all the same 4 birds with different colors slapped in front! There are so many birds and a lot of them have color overlap for costume accents!!!

[proton-wobbler]

Duplicate Submissions

Alright, here is the list of duplicate birds that were submitted to this poll:

American Robin, Canada Goose, Dovekie, Eurasian Jay, Hoatzin, Blue-bellied Roller, Smew, Hoopoe, Dark-eyed Junco, Painted Bunting, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Rifleman (Titipoumano), Archeopterix, Hooded Crow, Roseate Spoonbill, Northern Lapwing, European Starling, Steller's Jay, Great Auk, Eclectus Parrot, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Spotted Towhee, Resplendent Quetzal, Vermilion Flycatcher, Kaua'i O'o, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Hooded Pitohui, Rainbow Bee-eater, Long-tailed Tit (Shima Enaga), Sunbittern, Varied Thrush, Pied Currawong, Rock Pigeon, Domestic Chicken, Northern Gannet, Diederik Cuckoo, Yellow-headed Picathartes, Temminck's Tragopan, Greater Lophorina, Parotia, Grey Butcherbird, Green Jay, Horned Screamer, Magnificent Frigatebird, Spinifex Pigeon, Gorgeted Puffleg, Zebra Dove, Common House Martin, Swordbill Hummingbird, Greater Roadrunner, Rufous-crested Coquette, Wallcreeper, Racket-tailed Roller, Himalayan Monal, Crested Pigeon, Inaccessible Island Rail, Brown Creeper, Tufted Titmouse, White Wagtail, Bobolink, Shoebill Stork, Australian Brushturkey, black-throated magpie-jay, Greater Blue-eared Starling, spangled cotinga

This list will continue to be updated, but I'm not going to pin it to the top since technically these guys are not the focus of the poll (I just think they're neat :3). The tag placed on pics of these birds is ELIMINATED, as someone asked about tagging them and I figured out how to use the Mass Post Editor >:3

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Aert Schouman (Dutch, 1710–1792)

Three birds: two Inca pigeons and a collared cuckoo (1753)

Two birds: an apple finch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) and a keep (Fringilla montifringilla) (1752)

Two birds, including a red-green parrot

Two birds: a blue jay and a purple-breasted cotinga (1760)

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[1369/10977] Blue Cotinga - Cotinga nattererii

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Tyranni Family: Cotingidae (cotingas)

Photo credit: Laura Erickson via Macaulay Library

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Turquoise Cotinga

Photo: Randall Jiménez

"Unmistakable in range: male is stunning electric-blue with purple patch on throat and belly. Female completely different; pale grayish with heavy spotting below and scaling on back. Tends to be slow-moving, perching obviously atop the canopy or inconspicuously feeding within a fruiting tree. Found in forested areas, singly or in pairs."

- eBird

[somechubbynerd]

What is ur top 5 b i r d s.

Witches needs their birds.

This is a thing I was unaware of! I thought witches had cats, and I'm skipping the middleman so to speak, nya~

5. The silly down-walker (Blue Nuthatch)

4. The fuckin muppet (Whitehead’s Broadbill)

3. The grape and blue raspberry slushbird (Turquoise Cotinga)

2. The pink and purple seed muncher (Spot-winged Rosefinch)

The one I don't have a joke for (Violet-backed Starling)

[birdyverdie]

continuing our birb discussion... i wanted to ask, are there any real purple birbs?

(no pressure to answer!)

Mmmmm it's 4am rn bcuz I'm a bit of a fool and was drawing my Dungeons and Dragons Owlin character sooo beware my rambling and nonsense ahah ;;

Anyways! There are so many purple birds out there, it's very lovely. However you said "real" purple birds and I may be overthinking this cuz it's late but it reminded me about how blue isn't a real color on birds because there's nothing in a bird's diet that allows for that sort of blue pigmentation. Yknow how bell peppers can be like...red and yellow? Yeah it's cuz they have some antioxidants called carotenoids that create the red/yellow/orange pigmentation. (Pink flamingos are pink cuz shrimp...what would blue birds eat to make them blue? There's really not a blue fruit out there. Don't say blueberries.) And the answer researchers found out for blue on birds feathers is cuz of light wavelength.

Protein structure specifically keratin in their feathers (stuff ur nails and hair is made up of!) kinda refract the blue wavelengths and since all color we see are the colors that aren't absorbed...well. blue!

But for purple--and this is a guess cuz im pulling this out from what i remember of my nutrition class--purple may be their true color. Cuz carotenoids can also mix and match structurally and allow for some green and off kilter blue pigmentation to occur. And yknow. Blue and red = purple.

So. Maybe purple birds. Will do research later. But there are many. Many lovely ones that we can actually see. For example, and my favorite cuz I participated in a volunteer opportunity for these guys:

Purple Martins! What lovely guys, they flock in the hundreds. Seeing these guys pass by overhead was so cool. Ok maybe they're a bit more indigo but they're adorable regardless.

Though if you want a very very vibrant purple.

Violet-backed Starlings. What a banger bird. This bird just knew how to win in the fashion show. This tone of purple with white? Urgh. Slaps. Iridescent too.. lovely.

You're a corvid enjoyer. I think you'll get a kick outta this guy.

Purplish Jay! No I'm not kidding about the name. It's kinda funny cuz it's like hmmm you're not really purple but still purple enough sjjshaha silly!! I love human naming conventions

I know there's a bunch of hummingbirds that have purple feathers I wonder why. Oh flowers. Flowers maybe?? Nectar?? *shrugging noises*

Anyways, personal favorite of the hummingbirds

Lucifer hummingbirds! Have no clue why they named such a tiny lil guy with such a name but humans are silly. Just like birds. I wish there was carcinisation but for birds. Ornithonisation?

Ok I'm not making sense anymore here's the names of other purple birds off the top of my head:

violet-crowned hummingbird.

Purple breasted cotinga. (Cotingas are such goofy birds).

Purple honeycreeper (what a name. Imagine creeping on honey i dont think they even eat honey, just flower nectar.)

Purple Grenadier (finches beloved)

And I forgot the name but it's a Turaco

Anyways good night!! I love chattering about birds

[mogai-sunflowers]

if you were able to keep as many birds as you wanted and like, all their habitats were perfect and maintained and the laws all allowed it and everything, how many birds would you have and what species??

wooooooooooo baby i wish i could upload pictures of all of them but there's a limit of 30 per post and that's nowhere near enough adfasfasdf. soooooo here's the official list of all of my favorite birds!

blue jay, eurasian jay, stellers jay, black collared jay, azure jay, northern cardinal, vermillion cardinal, desert cardinal, pileated woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, eastern bluebird, mountain bluebird, gold finch, blue finch, scarlet finch, strawberry finch, rose finches, zebra finch, purple breasted sunbird, violet backed starling, blue vanga, blue dacnis, grandala, indigo bunting, lazuli bunting, rositas bunting, varied bunting, variegated fairy wren, splendid fairy wren, superb fairy wren, white winged fairy wren, philippine fairy bluebird, asian fairy bluebird, taiwan blue magpie, himalayan monal, tui, ravens, crows, blue crowned pigeon, victorian crowned pigeon, american robin, pink robin, lilac-breasted roller, european roller, indian roller, flying roller, blue-bellied roller, malachite kingfisher, woodlands kingfisher, azure kingfisher, rose-crested fruit dove, superb fruit dove, dracula parrot, hyacinth macaw, blue bird of paradise, anna's hummingbird, swordbilled hummingbird, swallowtailed hummingbird, fiery-throated hummingbird, lesser violetear, crowned woodnymph, blue chinned sapphire, mute swan, black swan, black-necked swan, bohemian waxwing, spangled cotinga, banded cotinga, brazilian tanager, australian diamond firetail, flame bowerbird, asian golden weaver, golden pheasant, malayan peacock pheasant, south philippine dwarf kingfisher, guineafowl, green junglefowl, blue-grey tanager, malachite sunbird, great sapphirewing, ruby-topaz hummingbird, fiery topaz, crimson topaz, rainbow bearded thornbill, violet sabrewing, long-tailed sylph, red-tailed comet, variable sunbird, helmeted woodpecker, red-crested cardinal, blue-winged mountain tanager, cinnamon hummingbird, antillean crested hummingbird, violet capped woodnymph, sparkling violetear, blue pitta, mandarin duck