Golden-fronted leafbird
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Chloropseidae |
| Genus: | Chloropsis |
| Species: | C. aurifrons |
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Chloropsis aurifrons Temminck, 1829 |
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The golden-fronted leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons) is a species of leafbird. It is a common resident breeder in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and parts of Southeast Asia. It often includes the Sumatran leafbird (C. media) from Sumatra as a subspecies, but the two differ extensively in, among others, morphology.
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.
feeding at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
feeding at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
at Jurong BirdPark, Singapore
Male in Nagarhole National Park, India
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