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Red-ruffed Fruitcrow (Pyroderus scutatus), EAT A TASTY FRUIT!!!, family Cotingidae, order Passeriformes, Colombia

photograph by Juan Jacobo Castillo

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Griffember day 1 (#82) - Pompadour cotinga (LC) [male]

This cotinga possesses six carotenoid pigments that seem to be entirely unique to them. The way these are produced is apparently also unique in birds! They gives the males a very distinct colour, quite unlike any other bird, even without using structural colour at all.

Rather rushed and messy today, but I didn't want to work on it more, so lets just hope the other ones will be better lol. Joining in the December griffins that @ains-art is doing!

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

For a bird as flamboyant as the Guianan cock-of-the-rock, homosexual behavior is almost a given. Studies have shown that up to 40% of males engage in same-sex copulation, particularly among younger individuals who have yet to establish their own territories for displaying to females, and a small percentage never attempt to court females at all.

(Image: A Guianan cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola rupicola) by John C. Mittermeier

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Cotinga (Cotingidae) family - round 2

Which is the best bird?

Guianan cock-of-the-rock

Three-wattled bellbird

Voting ended onDec 27, 2025

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October 26, 2025 - Black-chested Fruiteater (Pipreola lubomirskii) Found in parts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, these fruiteaters live in mountain forests. They eat fruit, though the details of their diet are unknown, foraging alone or in pairs. Their breeding behavior has not been described. Though they are classified as a species of Least Concern by the IUCN, their population is thought to be declining due to habitat loss.