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.



Generally it is solitary, preferably in the branches of the upper stratum of the forest, but it is possible that several look for food in the same fruit tree. Your flight is quick and easy. Their song is generally not heard, and the flapping of their wings is the only audible indication of their presence. The blue cotinga (Cotinga nattererii) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Colombia, north-west Ecuador, eastern and central Panama and western Venezuela in tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. In relation to range and population size this species is not considered to be vulnerable.