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The small cotinga’s turquoise body practically glowed in his hands.

One is a small picture, which — remarkably — uses colored hummingbird, quetzal, cotinga and macaw feathers instead of paint.

Its nest, its pallet, was of every kind of precious feather— Of lovely cotinga feathers, roseate spoonbill feathers, quetzal feathers.

For example, the grey-winged cotinga is currently listed as “vulnerable” with a habitable range of some 3300 square kilometers in the forested mountains northeast of Rio de Janeiro.

Usually, species such as the toucan and cotinga use their large beaks to eat the fruit, eventually spreading the seeds throughout the forest.