Greater Green Leafbird

Chloropsis sonnerati

Endangered · IUCN Red List

ENEndangeredOmnivoreForestCup nestSmall · 46 g

When to see the Greater Green Leafbird

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

Where to see the Greater Green Leafbird

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 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 Singapore.

About the Greater Green Leafbird

The greater green leafbird is a species of bird in the family Chloropseidae. It is distinguished from the lesser green leafbird by its powerful beak, yellow throat and eye ring of the female; and lack of a yellow border along the black throat patch found in the male C. cyanopogan.

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Easily confused with

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