Asian Fairy Bluebird

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iAsian Fairy Bluebird
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Irenidae Genus: Irena Species: I. puella
Binomial name
Irena puella (Latham, 1790)

The Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella) is a medium-sized, arboreal passerine bird.

This fairy bluebird breeds across tropical southern Asia from the Himalayan foothills, India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. This species is found in moist hill-forest. Two or three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree.

The adult Asian Fairy Bluebird is about 27 cm long. The male has glossy, iridescent blue upperparts, and black underparts and flight feathers. The female and first year male are entirely dull blue-green.

The Asian Fairy Bluebird eats fruit, nectar and some insects. Its call is a liquid two note glue-it.

Contents 1 Gallery 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

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At the Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens

[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Irena puella. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
• Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6

[edit] See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Irena puella

[edit] External links

• Asian Fairy Bluebird videos on the Internet Bird Collection