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Asian Fairy-bluebird

Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers & Leafbirds

Photo: Rejoice Gassah (iNaturalist) · CC BY 4.0

Irena puella

Basic stats

Diet

Fruit, nectar and some insects

Habitat

Forest; shallow cup nest of moss or small twigs in a sapling or small tree

Clutch size

2–3 greenish-white eggs marked with brown

Size

24–27cm

The Asian fairy-bluebird is a medium-sized arboreal passerine of forests across tropical southern Asia, Indochina and the Greater Sundas, 24–27 cm long. The male has glossy, iridescent blue upperparts and black underparts and flight feathers, a crimson iris and pinkish eyelids, and a black bill, legs and claws; the female is brownish blue with brighter feather edges, and young birds resemble the female, with the lower plumage mixed black and dull blue (Wikipedia, general species account).

It eats fruits, nectar and some insects, and its call is a liquid two-note glue-it. It breeds from February to April, building a shallow cup nest, sometimes of moss and sometimes of small twigs, in a sapling or small tree, and lays two or, less often, three greenish-white eggs marked with brown (Wikipedia, general species account).

Quick answers

What does the Asian Fairy-bluebird eat?
Fruit, nectar and some insects
What habitat does the Asian Fairy-bluebird live in?
Forest; shallow cup nest of moss or small twigs in a sapling or small tree
How many eggs does the Asian Fairy-bluebird lay?
2–3 greenish-white eggs marked with brown
How big is the Asian Fairy-bluebird?
24–27cm
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