Golden-fronted Leafbird

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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Chloropseidae
Genus:	Chloropsis
Species:	C. aurifrons

Binomial name

Chloropsis aurifrons
Temminck, 1829

The Golden-fronted Leafbird, Chloropsis aurifrons, 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.

at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.

The Golden-fronted Leafbird is a common resident breeder in India, Sri Lanka, and parts of southeast Asia. Its habitat is forest and scrub. It builds its nest in a tree, laying 2-3 eggs. This species eats insects and berries.

The adult is green-bodied with a black face and throat bordered with yellow. It has an orange forehead and blue moustachial line, but lacks the blue flight feathers and tail sides of Blue-winged Leafbird. Young birds have a plain green head.

The southern Indian race, C. a. frontalis, has a narrower yellow border to black face. The throat is black and it has a blue sub-moustachial stripe and duller orange forehead. Towards the extreme south of India and Sri Lanka the race insularis occurs which is slightly smaller than frontalis.^[1]