Gold-forehead leaf bird
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male gold-browed leaf bird |
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| Chloropsis aurifrons | ||||||||||
| Temminck , 1829 |
The gold-browed leaf bird ( Chloropsis aurifrons ) is an approx. 20 centimeter large member of the leaf bird family .
Appearance
This species has mostly yellowish-green plumage. Only the beak, legs, throat, and the area behind the eye are completely black. The forehead is colored red or yellow or orange. These feathers are separated from the rest of the plumage by a narrow yellowish stripe along the head and throat. It is well camouflaged by its coloring. Males and females differ very little from each other in terms of plumage. The subspecies ( Chloropsis aurifrons aurifons ), which occurs in India and Bangladesh, has a blue instead of a green belly, the subspecies ( Chloropsis aurifrons aurifons ) which is native to central and southern India has a completely black throat.
distribution and habitat
This species occurs in India , Sri Lanka , all of Southeast Asia to the island of Sumatra . It lives in the evergreen forests there, but also occurs in gardens and orchards.
Way of life
The gold-browed leaf bird feeds on the nectar of the coral trees , Loranthus family . He also picks berries, insects and spiders from the branches of the plants. Nor does he disdain figs. While searching for food, it also pollinates the flowers of its forage plants. Singing is a melodic whistle. It also mimics the calls of other bird species. This species lives together as a couple. Birds that occur in the higher elevations of the Himalayas move to lower elevations in winter.
Reproduction
The breeding season lasts from May to August. The bowl-shaped nest, which consists of thin twigs, blades of grass and moss, is held together with the help of cobwebs. Males and females build the nest together. This is located at the end of a branch on the tree at a height of 9-12 meters above the ground. The inside of the nest is padded with grass. The female lays 2–3 light, yellowish eggs with red spots. After an incubation period of 12 days, the young hatch and are provided with food by both parents. The young have thick gray-brown downy plumage.
Danger
Due to its wide distribution and because no endangerments are known for this species, the IUCN classifies this species as ( Least Concern ) harmless.
literature
- Asian fauna in color Page: 73.74 Karl Müller Verlag Erlangen 1989
- THE BLV Encyclopedia Birds of the World Page: 506 BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG Munich 2004 ISBN 3-405-16682-9
- The great encyclopedia of birds Page: 254, 256 Orbis Verlag 1996 ISBN 3-572-00810-7
Web links
- Chloropsis aurifrons inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2019.