Most are fools. Or at best have more feminine sensibilities. [He opens one wing - brown, gold, blue, red - and flutters it in a pheasant shrug. Most of birdkind sees bold patterns and bright colors as masculine and drabber or more cryptic patterns and colors as feminine, but few take it to the same extent as golden pheasants.] Survival and practicality are all well and good but I ask you, what's the point, if somebirdie can't look at you and see beauty?

Where have you been in mine? With a little more polish I could use your image to draw in a whole new demographic! Tell me, what are your views on modelling?