Spangled Cotinga vs Turquoise Cotinga

Spangled Cotinga

Cotinga cayana

Medium62 gForest

The species is sexually dimorphic with the male being a bright turquoise-blue with a large deep wine-red throat and black to the wings, tail and back. The female is overall dull brownish-gray with darker wings and faint mottling below.

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Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0

Turquoise Cotinga

Cotinga ridgwayi

Small57 gForest

The turquoise cotinga is 17 to 18.5 cm (6.7 to 7.3 in) long and weighs about 51 to 66 g (1.8 to 2.3 oz). The sexes are dramatically dimorphic. Adult males have deep turquoise-blue upperparts. Their wings are black with thin to moderately wide blue edges on most feathers. Their tail is black; their turquoise-blue uppertail coverts are long and cover much of the tail. Their chin and throat and separately their breast and upper belly are purple. Adult females are larger than males. They have mostly dark brown upperparts with buffish white feather tips that produce a scalloped appearance.

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Photo: Anthony Mora Aguilar · CC BY 4.0

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