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Sumatran leafbird
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Chloropseidae
Genus: Chloropsis
Species: C. media
Binomial name
Chloropsis media
(Bonaparte, 1850)
Synonyms

Chloropsis aurifrons media

The Sumatran leafbird (Chloropsis media) is a species of bird in the family Chloropseidae. It is endemic to forest and plantations in Sumatra in Indonesia. 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).

References

  1. BirdLife International (2019). "Chloropsis media". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22732267A156989848. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22732267A156989848.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  • Wells, D. R. (2005). Chloropsis media (Sumatran Leafbird). P. 266 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, & D. A. Christie. eds. (2005). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Taxon identifiers
Chloropsis media


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