Blue-winged Leafbird

Chloropsis moluccensis Gray, JE, 1831

≈17 cmLength24 gWeight

It has a green body, and the male has a black face and throat with a single blue moustachial stripe beside the bill.

Busiest months: February · Most records: Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore

Looks like Golden-fronted Leafbird

Least Concern

How to identify

Field marks

Male has a green body and a yellow tinge to the head
Male has a black face and throat
A single blue moustachial stripe beside the bill
Blue wings

Male, female and young

The female has a greener head and a blue throat; juveniles resemble the female but lack the blue throat patch.

Voice

Includes imitations of the calls of various other birds.

Similar species

Golden-fronted Leafbird

Golden-fronted Leafbird lacks blue on the flight feathers and tail feathers, and has a golden-yellow forehead.

Where and when it's recorded

Blue-winged Leafbird has been recorded at 222 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 10 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Kaeng Krachan NPThailand927 records
Khao Yai NPThailand797 records
Cat Tien NPVietnam642 records

More places

Dairy Farm Nature ParkSingapore631 records
Kaeng Krachan NP – Ban Krang CampgroundsThailand545 records
Kaeng Krachan NP – km 9 vicinityThailand503 records
Kaeng Krachan NP – stream crossings 1–3Thailand498 records
Dihing Patkai NP – SoraipungIndia462 records
Dihing Patkai NP – SoraipungIndia428 records
Kaeng Krachan NP – Panoen Thung (upper elevation) vicinityThailand399 records

Countries and regions with the most records

Thailand Vietnam Singapore India Cambodia China Laos Myanmar (Burma)

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The blue-winged leafbird (Chloropsis moluccensis) is a species of leafbird found in forest and second growth throughout Southeast Asia as far east as Borneo and as far south as southern Sumatra. It previously included Jerdon's leafbird (C. jerdoni) from the Indian subcontinent, and the Bornean leafbird (C. kinabaluensis) from northern Borneo as subspecies, but differs from both in measurements and morphology, with Jerdon's lacking any blue to the flight feathers, and Bornean having a distinctive male-like female plumage.

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