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The Golden-fronted Leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons) is a species of leafbird. It is a common resident breeder in India, Sri Lanka, and parts of Southeast Asia. It often includes the Sumatran leafbird (C. media) from Sumatra as a subspecies, but the two differ extensively in, among others, morphology.
Its habitat is forest and scrub. It builds its nest in a tree, laying 2-3 eggs. This species eats insects and berries.
Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
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The adult is green-bodied with a black face and throat bordered with yellow. It has an 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.
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. Towards the extreme south of India and Sri Lanka the race insularis occurs which is slightly smaller than frontalis.
Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 27 January 2016
Location: Tala Zone, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India
PLEASE! As I'm a first time birdwatcher bear in mind that some of the bird can be wrongly named. I have bought books and I confirm on the internet to get the right identity on the birds I take pictures off. But there can still be mistakes.
I have had most help from my friend, the bird pal I met at Suan Rot Fai. Sending pictures of birds I have not been able to identify to him via Line. 3 minutes later he and he have managed to identify most of the birds I have had problems with. THANKS! Visit his web page m☥lever for his beautiful pictures.
And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park.
We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room.
So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help. And from November 2018 I use eBird. Bird watching in U.A.E and Oman and my guide in Dubai recommended eBird and I have used the app since then and I note every bird I can identify in my eBird app.
Golden-fronted leafbird
27 January 2016 - Tala Zone, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India
Golden-fronted leafbird
27 January 2016 - Tala Zone, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India
Golden-fronted leafbird
27 January 2016 - Tala Zone, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India
Golden-fronted leafbird
27 January 2016 - Tala Zone, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India
Golden-fronted leafbird
27 January 2016 - Tala Zone, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India
Golden-fronted leafbird
30 March 2018 - Bardiya/ Bardia National Park, Nepal
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