Great Iora - BirdForum Opus

Aegithina lafresnayei

Identification

13.6 - 15.4cm.

• Bright yellow underparts and face
• Black-fringed yellow forecrown
• Black or dark olive upperparts
• Black wings and tail
• Narrow yellow eye-ring
• innotata with darkish olive-green wings and tail, xanthotis has lime-green upperparts

Females have olive-green upperparts and duller heads.

Distribution

From southern Burma to southern China (Yunnan) and south to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and peninsular Malaysia.
Uncommon to locally common.

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

• A. l. lafresnayei:

• Southern Thailand and Malaysia

• A. l. innotata:

• South-western China (southern Yunnan) to Burma, Thailand and northern Indochina

• A. l. xanthotis:

• Cambodia and southern Indochina

Habitat

Semi-deciduous and evergreen lowland forest.
In the Malay Peninsula in submontane habitat.

Behaviour

No information about diet. Forages in insectivore mixed-species flocks.
No information about breeding.
A resident species.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2005. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334726

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Great Iora. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Great_Iora

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