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Asian Fairy-bluebird



         


Asian Fairy Bluebird
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Irenidae
Genus: Irena
Species: puella
Binomial name
Irena puella
(Latham, 1790)

The Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella) is a medium-sized passerine bird.

This fairy bluebird breeds across tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. This species is found in moist forest. Two or three eggs are laid in a small cup nest in a tree.

The adult Asian Fairy Bluebird is about 25cm long. The male has glossy blue upperparts, and black underparts and flight feathers. The female and first year male are entirely dull blue-green.

The Asian Fairy Bluebird eats fruit, nectar and some insects. Its call is a liquid two note glue-it.

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