It is fact that the colorful birds make our world beautiful. Without them the world will be colorless. There are 10,000 species of birds from all over the world. Some birds, particularly Golden Pheasants, the birds of paradise, and Quetzals are very popular as pets. These birds have large variety of color combination according to their natural habitat. Let’s take look at most colorful birds of the world.
The Bali Bird of Paradise
Common Name:
The Greater Bird of paradise,
Description:
The Bali Bird of Paradise is one of the most spectacular birds of paradise. There are many kinds of bird of paradise. This bird is also best known as the Bird of Paradise. These are attractive birds with blue, or blue and red, plumage. Female birds are less brightly colored than males.
Distribution and Habitat:
It is founded on the island of New Guinea, Aru Islands and Indonesia.
Diet:
The diet consists mainly of fruits, seeds, arthropods and small insects.
Paradisaea Raggiana
Common Name:
Count Raggi’s Bird of paradise, Paradisaea Raggiana
Description:
Birds of Paradise are called the Divas of the avian world. Female bird has a red, grayish-brown, yellow iris and feet grayish brown. Male bird has a yellow crown, emerald-green throat and yellow collar between the throats.
Distribution and Habitat:
It is distributed widely in southern and northeastern New Guinea.
Diet:
Paradisaea Raggiana feeds on fruits, arthropods, seeds, mahogany, and nutmeg.
Golden Pheasant
Common Name:
Chrysolophus pictus, Chinese Pheasant
Description:
Golden Pheasant is one of the most popular of all pheasant birds. It is a brilliantly colored game bird. It has a long tail accounting for two-thirds of the total length. Male bird has a black and orange fan covering everything except the bright yellow eye.
Distribution and Habitat:
This bird is native to forests in mountainous area of western China and United Kingdom.
Diet:
Golden Pheasant feeds on the ground on grain, leaves and invertebrates, but roost in trees at night.
Himalayan Monal
Common Name:
Himalayan Monal, Impeyan Pheasant, Impeyan Monal, Lophophorus impeyanus
Description:
It is a bird of genus Lophophorus of the pheasant family. This bird is a large sized bird nearly seventy centimeters in length. The males of this species look quite different from the females of the species. Male bird has reddish brown neck and white back. Female bird has covered with dark brownish- black feathers.
Distribution and Habitat:
Himalayan Monal is found in Eastern Afghanistan and Western China. Mountainous regions; in summer, they are found in rocky, grass covered meadows and winters in coniferous and mixed forests.
Diet:
Monal feed on a variety of seeds, buds, shoots, roots, and some small mammals in the wild.
The red-and-green macaw
Common Name:
Green-winged Macaw, Ara chloropterus, Arara-vermelha-grande, Araà ailes vertes
Description:
The red and green macaw is a colorful bird of the world. It is belonging to Family Psittacidae. This bird has 88-92 cm long and wingspan of 110-120 cm. They weigh 1.250-1.700 g. male has red head and mantle. Median wing-coverts, scapulars and tertials are green. Back, rump and upper tail coverts are blue. The long tail is red with blue tips.
Distribution and Habitat:
It is native to woodlands of northern and central South America.
Diet:
Red and Green Macaw feeds on seeds, nuts, fruits, flowers and leaves. It needs to drink regularly during the day, in spite of the juicy fruits eaten. It also takes salt and minerals at clay-licks.
Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
Common Name:
Chrysolophus amherstiae, ruffed pheasants,
Description:
It is belonging to the Phasianidae family. The adult male is 100-120 cm in length. Male bird has black and silver head, long grey tail and rump, and red, blue, white and yellow body. The Lady Amherst’s pheasant has beautiful log tail with dark metallic green and head above a ruff of black and white.
Distribution and Habitat:
This bird is found to South western China, Myanmar, Burma and Tibet.
Diet:
Lady Amherst’s Pheasant has a varied diet, with foods taken ranging from purely vegetarian diets of seeds, leaves, fruits, tubers and roots, to small animals including insects, insect grubs and even small reptiles.
Painted Bunting
Common Name:
Passerina cirri, Painted bunting, pintado, passerin nonpareil
Description:
Painted Bunting is a most beautiful bird of the world. It is belonging to the Cardinal family. The male Painted Bunting has covered body with dark blue head, green back, red rump and shades.
Distribution and Habitat:
Painted buntings are common summer residents in much of Texas, and the southeastern U.S. and Mexico. In the fall they migrate south to Mexico, Panama and a number of Caribbean islands.
Diet:
The Painted Bunting eats seeds, spiders, insects, and caterpillars
Quetzal
Common Name:
Resplendent Quetzal, Spelled Quetzal
Description:
Quetzal is a colorful bird in the Trogon family. Quetzal male has green or golden-green wing coverts, back, chest and head, and a red belly. The male quetzal has tail feathers that are up to three feet (1 m) long. The female’s tail is much shorter. Today the Quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala,
Distribution and Habitat:
The Quetzal is found in the mountains of Central America, Mexican, and United State.
Diet:
Quetzals eat mostly fruits, but also eat worms, berries, frog, insect, larvae, vertebrates, and snails.
