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.

The female is dark brown on top. It has the white plumage of tiles. A gray eye ring is barely visible. The chest has a sandy background color and the belly is yellowish cinnamon. Most notably on the chest, but also on the belly, the feathers are darker towards the center so that they look like scales. The tail is dark brown.