I am Green Jungle Fowl with envy. One would think that this is important to every chicken breeder..... and there seems to be a lot of chicken breeders scattered around. Everybody would want one. It smells like an opportunity for some entrepreneur to introduce them to the west.
Man, those are good-looking birds.
I have trouble visualizing this, but read that the iridesence comes from layers of bubbles in the feathers. Light that reflects off the front exterior surface of the bubble looks different than light reflecting off the rear interior.surface of the bubble...