Purple-crested turaco in the Dlinza Forest

Very beautiful

Wrote a second part, bumped my tablet and it disappeared. 🫤

Part 1) You sent me down another rabbit hole with this image though I stayed on track relatively well. 😄 I read that the vivid red on the wings on the turaco is from a compound, turacin, a rare pigment unique to turaco. Another pigment found in turacos is turacoverdin. Both are copper-rich pigments and the birds need a diet high in copper to maintain the colours, which is easily done by the flower and fruit diet in its native territory. Red of other birds is more of a deep orange or red-brown. I don't know if any other intense red-pink. The green seen in other bird species results from yellow pigments like carotene combined with blue optical effects. Turacos have true green pigment. It mentions that it takes about a year for young turacos to acquire full adult colouring. It's thought that perhaps it takes that long to build up its copper stores.

Awesome!