Vermilion Bird.
The Vermilion Bird, also known as Zhu Que or Suzaku, is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations (Si Xiang) along with White Tiger, Black Tortoise and Azure Dragon.
According to Wu Xing, the Taoist five-elemental system, it represents the fire-element, the direction south, and the season summer correspondingly. Thus it is sometimes called the Vermilion Bird of the South and it is also known as Suzaku in Japan and Jujak in Korea.
Occasionally confused with Feng Huang, due to similarities in appearance, but the two are different creatures. The Feng Huang is a legendary ruler of birds who is associated with the Chinese Empress in the same way the dragon is associated with the Emperor, while the Vermilion Bird is a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations.
Although this confusion does make some sense when one is aware that non-Han variations of the Four Symbols consider the Feng Huang and the Vermilion Bird as the same creature.
The Vermilion Bird is an elegant and noble bird in both appearance and behavior, it is very selective in what it eats and where it perches, with its feathers in many different hues of Vermilion.