Bornean Leafbird

When to see the Bornean Leafbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bornean Leafbird

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Indonesia.

About the Bornean Leafbird

The Bornean leafbird, also known as the Kinabalu leafbird, is a species of bird in the family Chloropseidae. It is found in humid forest in Borneo, to which it is endemic. It has traditionally been considered a subspecies of the blue-winged leafbird, but differ in measurements and morphology, the female Bornean leafbird having a distinctive male-like plumage. The distribution of the two are known to approach each other, but there is no evidence of intergradation.

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Easily confused with

Philippine LeafbirdChloropsis flavipennisThe Philippine leafbird is a species of bird in the family Chloropseidae. Philippine LeafbirdChloropsis flavipennisThe Philippine leafbird is a species of bird in the family Chloropseidae. Greater Green LeafbirdChloropsis sonneratiThe greater green leafbird is a species of bird in the family Chloropseidae.