Pasarea Broadbill

Aceste pasari traiesc in padurile din Africa si sud-estul Asiei.Sunt pasari sociabile,scunde,cu un penaj viu colorat si cu ochii mari.Se hranesc cu plante,insecte si fructe.Cuiburile sunt inpletite cu mare pricepere si suspendate deasupra solului sau apei.Pasarile le decoreaza cu lichieni sau cu panza de paianjen!Cuiburile speciei cu penaj verde si rosu din Malaysia atarna de un singur fir lung,inpletit.Specia cu penaj verde isi petrece majoritatea timpului cautand fructe in padure.Chiar daca este viu colorata,cu greu se poate distinge prin frunzis.

Si in varianta engleza(Englesh): Broadbills are forest birds found in Africa and Southeast Asia. The green broadbill (Calyptomena viridis) occurs in the Sundaic lowlands, from southern Tenasserim, Myanmar, peninsular and west Thailand, Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore (extinct: Lim Kim Seng in litt. 2001), Kalimantan (including the Natuna islands) and Sumatra (including offshore islands), Indonesia and Brunei, in lowland and hill forests, principally below 800 m, but occasionally to 1,700 m. Because of extensive forest destruction in Indonesia and Malaysia, the species is near threatened but its use of secondary forest and submontane slopes implies that they are not immediately threatened.

This one is housed in the birdhouse of Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.