Impossible birds

Each month I enter the Female Nature Photographers chance for an appearance in the online Wild Planet Photo Magazine. Here are my entries for this month. I've been thinking about the beauty of birds feathers and how impossible they seem - how can a creature develop such incredible and strange colours?

Lilac breasted roller flying

African saddle billed stork

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Lilac breasted roller

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African starling