Blue-winged Leafbird

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Chloropseidae (Leafbirds)

Blue-winged Leafbird

Chloropsis moluccensis

蓝翅叶鹎 (lán-chì yè-bēi)

    Malay : Burung-Daun Biasa

    Japanese : アオバネコノハドリ (ao-bane ko-no-ha dori)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 青羽木の葉鳥

Taxonomy update for 2023

Javan Leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis) and Blue-winged Leafbird (Chloropsis moluccensis) are split from Blue-winged Leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis). The differences are subtle (less blue on wings and less yellow on head of Javan) but supported by genetic evidence–and Java
often hosts endemic species.

    -  Blue-winged Leafbird (Chloropsis moluccensis)

       RANGE: Widespread in Southeast Asia.

    -  Javan Leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis)

       RANGE: Java (now very rare)

    Size : 15.8-17.7 cm; Male 20–28·5 g; Female 19–25 g (moluccensis)

    

    (LC : Least Concern)

    Subspecies (6) and Distribution

• Chloropsis moluccensis chlorocephala (Walden, A 1871)
  – extreme eastern Bangladesh and northeastern India east to western Thailand.
• Chloropsis moluccensis kinneari (Hall, BP; Deignan, HG 1956)
  – SW China (s Yunnan) to e Thailand and n Indochina.
• Chloropsis moluccensis auropectus (Wells, DR; Dickinson, EC; Dekker, RWRJ 2003)
  – SE Thailand and S Indochina.
• Chloropsis moluccensis serithai (Deignan, HG 1946)
  – Peninsular Thailand south to Isthmus of Kra.
• Chloropsis moluccensis [moluccensis, icterocephala or natunensis] (Gray, JE 1831)
  (= Chloropsis moluccensis moluccensis)
  – southern Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and associated islands Bangka and Belitung,
  and the Natuna Islands.
• Chloropsis moluccensis viridinucha (Sharpe, RB 1877)
  – Borneo (except far N).

Chloropsis moluccensis ssp. moluccensis
Date : 10 August 2019

Location : Taiping Headworks Water Treatment Plant, Taiping, Daerah Larut, Matang & Selama, Perak

Chloropsis moluccensis ssp. moluccensis
Date : 25 May 2016

Location : Berjaya Hills, Daerah Bentong, Pahang