Blue-winged Leafbird
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 Blue-winged Leafbird in southern India
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| Chloropsis cochinchinensis Gmelin, 1789 |
The Blue-winged Leafbird, Chloropsis cochinchinensis also known as Jerdon's Leafbird, is a leafbird. Leafbirds are a family of bulbul-like small passerine bird species found in India and southeast Asia. They were formerly grouped with the ioras in the family Irenidae.
The Blue-winged Leafbird is a common resident breeder in southern India, Sri Lanka, southeast Asia and Indonesia. Its habitat is forest and more open woodland, where it builds its nest in a tree, laying 2-3 eggs. This species eats insects, fruit and nectar.
They were earlier classified along with the bulbuls, but unlike the bulbuls, the sexes differ. The male is green-bodied with a yellow head, black face and throat. It has a blue moustachial line, wing patch and tail sides. The female differs in that it has a green head and blue throat, and young birds are like the female but without the blue throat patch.
The Sri Lankan race, C. c. jerdoni, lacks the blue in the wings and tail. The females and young of this form have a yellow border to the blue throat patch.
The similar Golden-fronted Leafbird lacks blue in the flight feathers and tail, and has a golden forehead.
The call of this Leafbird like other Leafbirds consists of a rich mixture of imitations of the calls of various other species of bird.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2006). Chloropsis cochinchinensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6
[edit] External links
- Blue-winged Leafbird videos on the Internet Bird Collection
