#green broadbill

[your-local-autistic-bird]

I present to you:

The most radioactive looking bird I've ever seen

The Green broadbill (Calyptomena viridis) is a small bird that's located in the Malay peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra.

The green broadbill!! Yes, they are actually this vibrant and green. This guy is guaranteed to set off your Geiger counter with the amount of radiation they are made of.

They also have the shape of a lime, but I wouldn't recommend taking a bite.

[buffetlicious]

Next up, Songs of the Forest where you listen out for the melodious songs of the beautiful songbirds of Southeast Asia. There are quite a few species of them in here but all I heard are their calls as they are pretty elusive having grown wary to humans poaching them for the bird trade in the wild.

This Green Broadbill was so well hidden among the tree leaves, if not for another visitor with a huge telephoto lens aiming at it, I would not have even noticed it among the greenery.

[redwrencreative]

Happy 13th day of Pride Month! We have a Green Broadbill nestled in a bunch of Virginia Bluebells for you today, representing Polysexual Pride🩷💚🩵

[nuevocleo]

[sable40k]

"The green broadbill acts as an unintentional gardener of the forest, sowing fig seeds for them to grow anew."

Look at how poofy and soft he looks!

Source:

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[life-on-our-planet]

⛰️🪶Whitehead's Broadbill🪶⛰️

[demeter1111]

Good morning. ☀️🙂☕️ Have a nice day.

[herpsandbirds]

Can I get some of the greenest creatures you can find?

Green.

Green Broadbill (Calyptomena viridis), family Calyptomenidae, order Passeriformes, Malaysia

photograph by Tan Tc

Amazon Basin Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus batesii), family Boidae, found in the Amazonian lowlands of South America

This species was split off from the Emerald Tree Boa, C. caninus, in 2009.

photograph by Tara Biron & Reptiles4all

Green Hairstreak (Callophrys rubi), family Lycaenidae, Netherlands

photograph by Victor Kouwenhoven

[todaysbird]

I just wanted to say.. your blog makes me SO HAPPY! I don't know what it is about birds but they make me smile and go crazyyyy! I love them so much! I was wondering, since you are the bird expert, do you know any interesting green colored birds? :>

thank you!!! And yes, there's so many interesting green birds! (DID YOU KNOW: many birds APPEAR green, but their feathers are only structured that way. the only 'true' green pigment in birds is turacoverdin, found only in turacos!)

There's the Javan Green-Magpie, now sadly critically endangered

A personal favorite & common pet, the Indian Ringneck

Couldn't mention turacos without including them...this one is a White-Cheeked Turaco

Double-eyed fig parrot...love how vibrant they are

green broadbill...gotta love a bird with a snoot

the iridescent shine of the Green Pygmy-Goose!

the green pheasant...he sure is green and a pheasant

the green inca (there's lots of nice green hummingbirds, but having green in the name means he takes the cake)

And, of course, the Green Jay.

[monstergili]

For anyone curious of what they sound like.

Lesser Green Broadbill

th.. thank you

[davidhogan]

A Green Broadbill from Mulu in Sarawak, Borneo. This is what I love doing, birdwatching and bird photography.

[dragoncarrion]

usually i think all birds have harmonious colors that go well with each other or look good by themselves. however the green broadbill is just. bad

[charleyharperid]

Flamingo

Bullock's oriole (updated 20 Jul '23)

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Sunbittern

Little auk? (updated 20 Jul '23)

Red-headed barbet?

Scarlet-rumped Tanager

Green broadbill

Violet-backed starling

Great Hornbill

Blue-and-yellow Macaw

Southern Carmine Bee-eater

Atlantic Puffin

Barn Owl

Grey-crowned Crane

Flying Fox (bat)

Epaulet oriole?

Red admiral (butterfly)

Kiwi

Gouldian Finch

Humboldt Penguin

Rufous treepie?

Scarlet Ibis

Woodland kingfisher

Roseate Spoonbill

Green magpie

Buff-bellied hummingbird

Green parrot finch

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Mongabay Environmental News:

Michael Harvey recalls the moment he first saw a flock of yellow-crested helmetshrikes flitting through a cloud forest in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: the first confirmed sighting by scientists of the species in 16 years.

“It was more bizarre and exciting than I could have imagined,” says Harvey, an ornithologist and assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

In December 2023, he and a team of U.S. and DRC ornithologists and herpetologists trekked for weeks in cars, on motorbikes and on foot to reach the Itombwe massif, on the western edge of the Albertine Rift, a vast ecoregion of mountains, valleys and forests spanning five countries in East Africa.

Harvey and a DRC assistant had left their camp to hike up a ridge to look for cloud forest birds. When they reached a fern meadow in a natural forest clearing, rain clouds swept in, and thick swirling mist reduced visibility to around 10 meters (33 feet).

“I’m in the meadow, and inside the cloud forest, I start hearing these wild, snapping sounds and squeals that sounded like wind-up toys,” Harvey says. “Then, out of this pea-soup fog, I see these jet-black shapes, almost blacker than black, starting to emerge in the fog, and I raise my binoculars and that’s when I can see these brilliant, bright, whitish-yellow crests on the birds, the yellow eyes, the yellow eye wattles, and the pink-red legs.”

It was a small flock of six to eight yellow-crested helmetshrikes (Prionops alberti), a species he’d only previously known from books — and one that scientists hadn’t sighted since 2007.

“They were interacting with each other, making these bizarre sounds and doing acrobatics right on the edge of this clearing and then they sort of melted back into the forest and moved down the ridge.”

Finding the yellow-crested helmetshrike wasn’t the main reason Harvey went to Itombwe, though it was a “dream bird” that had been at the back of his mind alongside the Itombwe owl (Tyto prigoginei) and Itombwe nightjar (Caprimulgus prigoginei). The latter two haven’t been recorded by scientists since 1996 and 1955, respectively.

The main reason Harvey went to Itombwe was to obtain a genetic sample from the Grauer’s broadbill (Pseudocalyptomena graueri), a tiny, brilliant-green bird that’s the sole species in its genus. He succeeded: both observing a pair of Grauer’s broadbills and taking a genetic sample. But his first encounter with the helmetshrikes, and further ones the team had during the six-week-long expedition, stick vividly in his mind.

[birdchecklist]

Green Broadbill