Join for FREE
It only takes a minute!

Welcome to BirdForum.
BirdForum is the net's largest birding community, dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE! You are most welcome to register for an account, which allows you to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Personal tools
Main Categories

Asian Fairy-bluebird

From Opus

(Redirected from Asian Fairy-Bluebird)
MalePhoto by Dr Manjeet SinghFRIM, Malaysia, March 2011
Male
Photo by Dr Manjeet Singh
FRIM, Malaysia, March 2011
Irena puella

Contents

[edit] Identification

Size 25cm
Male: shining blue crown,mantle,rump and undertail coverts contrasting with velvety black head,throat,belly and tail diagnostic.
Female: blue-green plumage with blackish primaries.
Iris is red in both sexes, .

[edit] Distribution

India & Myanmar through south east Asia to the Greater Sundas and the Philippines.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies[1]

Five subspecies are known:

  • I. p. puella
  • I. p. malayensis:
  • I. p. crinigera:
  • I. p. turcosa:
  • I. p.tweeddalei:
  • Philippines (Palawan, Busuanga, Balabac, Culion and Calamian)

[edit] Habitat

Forest and Forest Edges.

[edit] Behaviour

Frequents the canopy and middle story.Frequently congregates in fruiting trees and shrubs with other frugivores. Some times hawks after flying insects at the forest edges.

[edit] Vocalisation


Listen in an external program
Recording by Andrew Whitehouse
Bukit Timah, Singapore June 2009

[edit] References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

[edit] External Links

Advertisement

Fatbirder's Top 1000 Birding Websites

Search the net with ask.com
Help support BirdForum
Ask.com and get

Page generated in 0.25747609 seconds with 6 queries
All times are GMT. The time now is 02:32.