Brazil
Intervales State Park
Brazil
11Oct2017
 Blue (Swallow-tailed) Manakin
In Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
...the tail is unlike any swallow.
Chiroxiphia caudata
(L 5.75-6")
S
© Theodore
A Parker, III
Chiroxiphia in Greek means
hand sword; caudata in Latin
means
tail.
Be like the bird, who 
Halting in his flight 
On limb too slight 
Feels it give way beneath him, 
Yet sings 
Knowing he hath wings. 
(Victor Hugo)