ORANGE BELLIED LEAFBIRD by Pratim Das

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This is very colourful. I like the flower background too.

Thanks Carole Swingler....my pleasure...

PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN (Observe the Bird and recognize)..ORANGE BELLIED LEAFBIRD....WATERCOLOUR...A4...2013....[From a PHOTOGRAPH of NITOO DAS]...The Orange-Bellied Leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii) is a bird native to the eastern Himalayas and south China to the Malay Peninsula. It is brightly colored with an orange belly, a green back, a blue tail and flight feathers, and a black and blue patch over its throat and chest. It has a long, curved beak. It feeds on insects, spiders and nectar. Orange-bellied leafbirds make their nests from roots and fibers which are suspended from the edges of twigs at the end of a tree branch. They do not migrate. The scientific name commemorates the English naturalist Thomas Hardwicke. This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.