Endangered
Sumatran Leafbird
Chloropsis media
Sumatran Leafbird is a perching bird in the family Chloropseidae (order Passeriformes) — Chloropsis media, recorded as Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
Appearance
It has often been included as a subspecies of the golden-fronted leafbird (C. Aurifrons), but the two differ extensively in, among others, morphology, with the male of the Sumatran leafbird having a yellow (not deep orange) forehead, and the female resembling a female blue-winged leafbird, but with a yellowish forecrown and no blue to the wings and tail (very different from the golden-fronted leafbird, where the male and female are very similar).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to forest and plantations in Sumatra in Indonesia.
Habitat labels include tropical forest.
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
Sumatran 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 Sumatran Leafbird, Wikidata item Q1923351. 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.
