Conservationists expect to find thousands of plant and animal species in Harapan Rainforest. Sumatran lowland rainforest is already known to boast more diverse flora than any other place in the world. Pictured: Red-naped Trogon, Harpactes kasumba.
Source: BBCNews.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But if we decide to destroy these other life forms, the least we can do is to know what we are destroying by learning that they exist. If you have a high-resolution digitized nature image (I prefer JPG format) that you'd like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email it to me, along with information about the image and how you'd like it to be credited.
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Does he have a naked face? Is that blue skin? If not, how odd that his face and beak are the same color. What a fabulous bird.
after a fair amount of poking around through my books, i think he does have a naked face, which is unusual for trogons. But blue feathers are difficult for birds to produce since, unlike most colors, most bird species do not use pigments in their feathers to make blue coloring -- true blue color in feathers is the result of altered feather structure that selectively reflects blue light into the viewer's eyes. this is why blue birds appear grey or black in low light.
it is evolutionarily easier for birds to make blue skin than blue feathers.