So, I have been searching for a bird design for my next tattoo. I found a bird on an Asian silk print that is very close to what I have been looking for, but I cannot identify the bird and I would like some help. I'm sorry that the image is fuzzy, but I snapped this with my cell phone.

Does anyone know what it is?

4/15/2007 1:18:35 PM

I know it's not one, but that makes me think of a quetzal

4/15/2007 1:26:32 PM

yeah I'd say it looks like the resplendent quetzal from the cloud forests of Costa Rica

4/15/2007 1:41:05 PM

The closest I can come to is a swallow or a sparrow with a crazy tail.

Here's the bigger picture, if it'll help anyone a little more familiar with bird art or stories.

4/15/2007 1:41:19 PM

The big bird is a pheasant the smaller ones look like a jays, or a swallows

4/15/2007 6:08:57 PM

Some sort of bird of paradise?


http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/grzimek_birds/Paradisaeidae/Astrapia_mayeri_male.jpg/view_large.html

4/16/2007 2:57:23 AM

looks like a bad ass rooster kinda

4/16/2007 4:13:54 AM

^hahah

4/16/2007 7:53:50 AM

reminds me of a phoenix...

4/16/2007 8:14:34 AM

^ I saw a really awesome tattoo of that pic! I never knew what it was based off

http://www.kevinstattoozoo.com/conf/includes/pics/Kevin_Mashburn11.jpg

(link because the pic is quite big)

4/16/2007 11:12:14 AM

Magpie Jay? Like the Quetzal they are also native to Costa Rica. Supposed to be the smartest bird species, related to ravens actually. Anywho, dunno how a chinaman would know about them and draw them.

4/17/2007 9:08:16 AM

"phoenix" bird of paradise (for real) so maybe the bird of paradise idea isn't too far fetched

4/17/2007 3:49:44 PM