Meet Blue Cotinga-A Gorgeous Rare Bird With Bright Blue Plumage (7 Photos)
This extraordinarily beautiful bird of humid tropical forests is found only in eastern Panama and parts of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Laura saw and photographed two males in Darien Province in Panama. The blue cotinga (in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama) (Cotinga nattererii), is a species of passeriform bird belonging to the Cotinga genus of the Cotingidae family. It is native to Colombia, northwestern Ecuador, eastern and central Panama, and western Venezuela.
In Venezuela, it is found in the clearings of the tropical forest, near Lake Maracaibo and has also been observed in deposits in the states of Mérida and Táchira. In Colombia, it is found along the entire length of the Pacific coast and the Magdalena river valley. It is rare in the Ecuadorian province of Esmeraldas. In Panama, it is found in the east of the province of Colón and west of that of Panama, near the city of La Chorrera and has often been seen in the clearings of Barro Colorado. This species is considered rare and local in its natural habitat, the canopy and the edges of humid forests up to 1000 m of altitude.