👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully weird and slightly alarming little mouthful – "purple bellying." Now, immediately upon saying it out loud, I feel a slight prickle of something… maybe just the impending need to explain it!
Basically, in the somewhat tragically specific field of ornithology (the study of pretty much just birds), a purple belly refers specifically to a very particular shade of violet or dusky plum that some male Purple MARTIN shorebirds display during their elaborate courtship dances. Think about those guys for a second - they're essentially feathered peacocks performing aerial acrobatics, and the only thing showing off the most is a ridiculously vibrant underbelly! Historically, it was really just described by what looks like a bruised plum or eggplant. Early naturalists were very literal with their descriptions – you wouldn’t want to be sending a draft of this to your great-aunt Mildred who'd probably think you were describing a rather unfortunate pudding. The exact shade is vitally important, mind you! Too much pink and it's not purple belly. Too much brown, then it's just… underbelly. There are even documented "purple belly disputes," which I assure you, are absolutely real, and involve very serious arguments amongst ornithologists. 100% of the time. The whole thing is rather… flamboyant for a bird that spends most of its life dipping into marshes to gobble up small stuff with its long beak. It’
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