Colorful Violaceous Turaco - LA Zoo Aviary 720p HD

[shaocaholica]

This same bird came up close and regurgitated a berry for me

[jcmegabyte]

@shaocaholica Interesting - I've some pretty unusual stories about these birds since I filmed this one and posted it here! Thanks for watching and commenting =)

[symbolofca]

I saw this bird last time I went, he ended up attacking a friend of mind who was just checking him out.

He didn't even try to provoke the bird in anyway

[jcmegabyte]

Wow! I am surprised to hear that! :-O This particular bird seemed fairly tame (making it easy to film) but would move away if approached. I wonder if it was perhaps mating season or something during your visit, and the bird was being territorial... Hard to predict what animals will do sometimes. I hope there wasn't any serious damage!

[symbolofca]

@jcmegabyte no serious damage. just a few scratches that was about it. But you could be right, could be mating season because the SAME bird tried to attack my friends cousin when she went a couple weeks later

[krystyna4501]

Fajne

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much! =D

[scarleth98]

voler comme un oiseau!!!!!!!!

le reve!

bisous

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks again for attention and kind words :-) Cheers!

[curiosValsh]

Nice bird.

[taofledermaus]

Great work! Do the females differentiate in coloring from the males?

[jcmegabyte]

I don't think so, although this was the only one I saw in the Aviary, and all the photos I could find show the males and females looking pretty much the same.