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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

SILVER-BREASTED BROADBILL

Photographed at Dong Nai Nature Reserve, Vietnam, May 2024.

 1349                      SILVER-BREASTED BROADBILL                 Serilophus lunatus

VIETNAM                    18

The silver-breasted broadbill (Serilophus lunatus) is a species of bird in the broadbill family, Eurylaimidae that is found in parts of Southeast Asia. The silver-breasted broadbillis found in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The species has declined somewhat due to habitat loss, but is not considered to be threatened with extinction.

It occupies a range of forest habitats. It occurs in tropical and semi-tropical forests, as well as semi-deciduous forests and forests dominated by pine, oak and bamboo. It may occur in selectively logged forests and even entered agricultural land and gardens. It occurs at a range of elevations across its range.





Saturday, June 24, 2017

LONG-TAILED BROADBILL

Photographed at Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, April 2017
1165                LONG-TAILED BROADBILL              Psarisomus dalhousiae 

MALAYSIA            79

Found in montane forests at 850 - 1,500 m. 26 cm. Resident from central Himalayan foothills, through S China and Indochina to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.