So as I promised, I'm going to post some birds that the royal flycatcher reminded me. While not in the same family, it is related to the cotingas, a neat group of birds I haven't posted about. The most well-known cotingas are the cocks-of-the-rock, but there are a lot of neat birds in the group. I've narrowed the birds I want to post down to two posts. The first will be the fairly typically bird-shaped cotingas, which are neat because of how brightly-colored they are. The second will be the cotingas with feathers in weird patterns. Note that with one exception, which I'll post in the next post, these are the males of the species. Most cotingas have extreme sexual dimorphism.
I'm going to start with the orange-breasted fruit-eater...
...move on to the scaled fruit-eater, in a different genus...
And then post four cotingas with varying degrees of purple-adjacent colors. Y'all know how much I love purple. Enough that even similar colors are good.
Here's the rose-collared piha. It's also rose-vented.
Spangled cotinga:
Banded cotinga, the only one with a good, proper purple (in the same genus as the spangled):
Finally (for this post) the pompadour continga sounds like it should have a crest, but as far as I can tell it doesn't.