Long-tailed Birds
The ribbon-tailed astrapia is endemic to Papua New Guinea. The male has an iridescent olive green and bronze plumage, and has an ornamental "ball" plume above its bill and two extremely long, ribbon-like white tail feathers. The female does not have a long tail and has a much duller brown and black body with an iridescent head.
Wilson’s bird of paradise is endemic to Indonesia. The male is a red and black with a yellow mantle on its neck, light green mouth, blue feet and two curved violet tail feathers. The head is blue, with a black double cross pattern on it. The breast is green and its back is scarlet red. The crown of the bird’s head is so vivid that it is visible at night. The female is a brownish bird with bare blue crown.
The red-billed streamer tail, also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is indigenous to Jamaica. The adult male crown and tail are black. The feathers at the nape of the neck form tufts. The body is a bright iridescent green. The bill is red with a black tip. The female's crown, neck and back are pale green. These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue or catch small insects. Adult males in flight produce a distinctive whirring flight sound.
The male marvelous spatuletail is found in Peru. Its two outer tail feathers with bare shafts that cross each other and end in large purplish black spatules. The female's outer tail feathers are also long, but shorter than the male's, and do not have the racquets.
Long-tailed paradise whydah are found in sub-sahara Africa. They differ from one another in size, in breeding plumage and color, and in the songs used for mating. It is difficult to distinguish between males and females. Their long black tail feathers can grow up to 36 centimeters or more. Female whydahs tend to have a grey bill and feathers that are greyish-brown with blackish streaks along with their under tail feather being more white. Breeding males have black heads and back, the rusty colored breast, a bright yellow nape, and white abdomen. They lay their eggs in nests of other songbirds and males have the ability to mimic the songs of their host.
The scissor-tail fly catcher is also known as the Texas bird-of-paradise and swallow-tailed flycatcher. Adult birds have pale gray heads and upper parts, light underparts, salmon-pink flanks and dark gray wings. They have extremely long, forked tails, which are black on top and white on the underside. At maturity, the male may be up to 15 in (38 cm) in length, while the female's tail is up to 30% shorter.
The Lady Amherst pheasant adult male is 100–120 cm (40-48 in.) in length, its tail accounting for 80 cm (31 in) of the total length. It has a distinctive white and black cape, with a red crest. Its rump is red, blue, dark green, white and yellow plumage. The "cape" can be raised in display. The female is much less showy, with a duller mottled brown plumage all over.
The superb lyrebird is endemic to Australia. It is one of the world's largest songbirds. It is known for its elaborate tail and courtship displays, and its excellent mimicry. The wings are short and round, and are only capable of weak flight, being mainly used for balance or for gliding from trees to the ground.
The turquoise-browed motmot inhabits Central America. It has acquired a number of local names including guardabarranco ("ravine-guard") in Nicaragua, Torogoz in El Salvador (based on its call) and pájaro reloj ("clock bird") in the Yucatán, based on its habit of wagging its tail like a pendulum. In Costa Rica it is known as momoto cejiceleste or pájaro bobo ("foolish bird"), because its tendency to allow humans to come very near it without flying away. It has a mostly grey-blue body with a reddish-brown back and belly. There is a bright blue strip above the eye, on the flight feathers and upperside of the tail. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets and have bare feather shafts. The tail is used by both sexes in a wag-display in the presence of a predator. It is thought to communicate to the predator that it has been seen and that pursuit will not result in capture.
The long-tailed sylph is a hummingbird found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Males have a shining emerald green crown, metallic bronzy green upperparts, duller olive-green underparts, and a blue or violet throat. The inner tail feathers are very short and the outer ones very long. The tail's upper surface is iridescent blue, green, and violet and the underside bluish black. The long-tailed sylph's song is a series of buzzy notes 'bzzt...bzzt...bzzt...'." or higher-pitched 'bzzeeew'.
These birds are incredibly beautiful, exotic …
The colors are unreal and the long tail is
Like a “wow”, how can this be .
Very interesting!!!!!