Dusky Broadbill
A species of Dusky Broadbill Scientific name : Corydon sumatranus Genus : Dusky Broadbill
Dusky Broadbill, A species of Dusky Broadbill
Botanical name: Corydon sumatranus
Genus: Dusky Broadbill
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Description General Info
Photo By Ashwin Viswanathan Description
It is mostly a charcoal gray color with a pale-yellow throat and red bill. It has a brown eye ring. There is a single white band on the wings and some white bands on the underside of the tail.
Size
29 cm
Nest Placement
Tree
Feeding Habits
Dusky Broadbill primarily consumes insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, and ants, as well as small lizards. They forage in groups, glean prey from foliage, and catch insects in mid-leap. Most active at dawn and dusk, dusky Broadbill hunts in the forest canopy.
Habitat
The habitat of dusky Broadbill predominantly includes primary forests with a concentration in evergreen and deciduous forests as well as mixed dipterocarp forests. These birds are also found in unique environments such as mossy forests on limestone and peat swamp-forests. They adapt well to gallery forests and can reside near plantation edges where tall trees are present. Dusky Broadbill typically inhabits lowland and hill regions across broader Southeast Asia.
Dite type
Frugivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Fruit
Distribution Area
The dusky broadbill is found in moist and dry tropical and subtropical broadleaf forests, tropical swamps, and cloud forests with an upper elevation limit of 2000 metres in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Singapore, as well as the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Photo By Ashwin Viswanathan