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Male
Photo by Dr Manjeet Singh
FRIM, Malaysia, March 2011

Irena puella

[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

Female
Photo by jaray
Kangkrajan National Park, Thailand

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

• India to Myanmar, Thailand and Indochina

• I. p. malayensis:

• Malaysia

• I. p. crinigera:

• Sumatra, Borneo and adjacent islands

• I. p. turcosa:

• Java

• 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

[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.

• List of references

[edit] External Links