#monals

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A male and female Chinese monal (Lophophorus lhuysii) cross the street on Balang Mountain, Sichuan, China

by Tim Melling

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Himalayan Monal

Lophophorus impejanus. Like many birds, monals exhibit sexual dichromatism, in which males and females display different colored plumage.

SciArt by Elizabeth Gould for A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1831) by John Gould. 

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library ( @biodivlibrary ) with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries ( @smithsonianlibraries ) for digitizing. 

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Happy Feathursday!

Male Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus).

SciArt by Joseph Smit for Ibis (1884). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History (@amnhnyc) for digitizing.

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"Hey girl..." 

Male Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus) uses his colorful, feathery charms to woo this female, who seems rather unimpressed. 

Feathursday SciArt from John Gould's Birds of Asia, Vol. 7 (1850-1883). View in @biodivlibrary with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives @smithsonianlibraries for digitizing.

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Happy Feathursday! 

SciArt of the gorgeous iridescence of the Chinese Monal (Lophophorus lhuysii), captured by John Gould and William Hart for Gould's Birds of Asia, Vol. 7 (1850-83). 

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to @smithsonianlibrariesfor digitizing.