Endangered
Greater Green Leafbird
Chloropsis sonnerati
Greater Green Leafbird is a perching bird in the family Chloropseidae (order Passeriformes) — Chloropsis sonnerati, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The greater green leafbird is a bird in the family Chloropseidae. It is distinguished from the lesser green leafbird (Chloropsis cyanopogon) 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. The greater green leafbird has a loud voice, consisting of an ascending whistle chee-zi-chee.
Range and habitat
It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. In Indonesia, it is found in Sumatra, Borneo, Natuna Islands, Java and Bali. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, mainly old-growth forest but also secondary forest and edges.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
The species is threatened by trapping for the cage bird trade and has become rare or even disappeared in large parts of its range.
Greater Green Leafbird is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Greater Green Leafbird, Wikidata item Q795519. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
