Orange-bellied Leafbird

Orange-bellied Leafbird
Orange-bellied Leafbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Chloropseidae
Genus: Chloropsis
Species: C. hardwickii
Binomial name
Chloropsis hardwickii
Jardine & Selby, 1830

The Orange-Bellied Leafbird, Chloropsis hardwickii, is a bird native to the eastern Himalayas and south China to the Malay Peninsula. It is brightly colored with an orange belly, a green back, a blue tail and flight feathers, and a black and blue patch over its throat and chest. It has a long, curved beak. It feeds on insects, spiders and nectar. Orange-bellied leafbirds make their nests from roots and fibers which are suspended from the edges of twigs at the end of a tree branch. They do not migrate.

The scientific name commemorates the English naturalist Thomas Hardwicke.

Back of the Orange-bellied Leafbird

References

  • BirdLife International (2004). Chloropsis hardwickii. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
  • Birds of the World by Colin Harrison and Alan Greensmith, Eyewitness Handbooks