This is a Paradise flower, or like someone calls it , a Parrot flower. After I had changed the photo to B/W and taken out the parts I wanted in color, I started to think about the bird Phoenix. It is no doubt that this flower looks like a bird, but not a parrot.

A Phoenix is a mythical bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (literally "sun-city" in Greek). It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song. The Phoenix's ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one. In very few stories they are able to change into people.
The camera was hand held. Photo taken in the middle of the day half sitting in the shade against a wall.
Camera Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/400
Av( Aperture Value ) 5.0
ISO Speed 100
Lens 17.0 - 70.0 mm
Focal Length 70.0 mm
Image Quality RAW
Flash Off
Picture Style Standard