Golden-fronted Leafbird vs Orange-bellied Leafbird

Golden-fronted Leafbird

Chloropsis aurifrons

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The adult is green-bodied with a black face and throat bordered with yellow. It has dark brown irises and blackish feet and bill. It has a yellowish 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 and lack the black on their face and throat. The black of the face and throat appears slightly duller in females. 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.

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Recorded by Jairam Vijayan · Uncertain · Payyavoor, Kannur, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: sunnyjosef · CC BY 4.0

Orange-bellied Leafbird

Chloropsis hardwickii

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It is brightly coloured 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.

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Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Golden-fronted Leafbird and Orange-bellied Leafbird.