2) reminds me of the movie “The man with one red shoe”, remake of the French movie “Le grand blond à la chaussure noire”. (And I still prefer the French original one)
In my case it was Great Teet (I spelled it that way because the word was rejected by goComics) with their black head, white-gray-blue-yellow-green plumage. We have a lot of those around.
And it was a great one!