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The lovely cotinga is 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long and weighs 66 to 75 g (2.3 to 2.6 oz). The sexes are dramatically dimorphic. Adult males have rich bright blue upperparts whose color is slightly deeper on the crown. Their wings' lesser and median coverts are the same bright blue. Their greater coverts, primaries, secondaries, and tertials are black with blue or greenish blue edges. Their tail is black with greenish blue or bluish green edges on the feathers; the uppertail coverts are long and cover the base of the tail.
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When to see the Lovely Cotinga
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Lovely Cotinga
The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Panama.
About the Lovely Cotinga
The lovely cotinga is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Mexico and every Central American country except El Salvador.
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Easily confused with
Turquoise CotingaCotinga ridgwayiThe 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).
Purple-breasted CotingaCotinga cotingaThe purple-breasted cotinga is 18 to 20.5 cm (7.1 to 8.1 in) long; three individuals weighed 50 to 55 g (1.8 to 1.9 oz).
Banded CotingaCotinga maculataBirds are around 20 cm long, and males are a bright blue with a black spotted back.
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