Endangered
Javan leafbird
Chloropsis cochinchinensis
Javan leafbird is a perching bird in the family Chloropseidae (order Passeriformes) — Chloropsis cochinchinensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to India.
The perching bird
Perching birds: the largest bird order. A species may be a babbler, a sparrow, a manakin, or a leafbird.
This is a named wild bird with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
The Javan leafbird is a leafbird found in old-growth and second growth forests in Java.
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
Javan 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 Javan leafbird — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q430467. 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.
