Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing the desperate child beneath the diva's brilliant plumage.
The area's shallow salt lagoons are home to thousands of migratory birds as well as flocks of flamingos like these, whose bright pink plumage stands out against the arid landscapes of Bolivia's Altiplano region.
So peacocks get all the attention when it comes to iridescent plumage, but I think that the fanciest rainbow feathers belong to the smallest members of the living dinosaur family, hummingbirds.
Fawkes, Professor Dumbledore's phoenix, was standing on his golden perch beside the door. The size of a swan, with magnificent scarlet-and-gold plumage, he swished his long tail and blinked benignly at Harry.
Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.
There is a little brown sparrow, resembling the hairbird, save a general tint of russet in his plumage, that may be heard distinctly among the warbling host.