The silver-breasted silk-crowned bird in the Field Manual of Chinese Birds No. 604 (scientific name: Serilophus lunatus) is a bird of the family Finches broadbill that has differentiated into 10 subspecies worldwide.
Body length 16-18 cm. The mouth is broad, sky blue, and the base is orange. The nostrils are round with broad black eyebrow lines.
The upper back is smoky gray, the lower back to the upper tail covert is maroon, the wing margins of the wings are white, the wing corner feathers are decorated with light gray blue, the coverts and feathers are bright black, and the wing surface has a significant bright blue and white wing mirror.
The tail feathers are black, the central two pairs are pure black, the third pair is somewhat white, and the rest of the tail feathers have broad white end spots, which are convex tail shape.
Tarsal and toed blue-green. The silver-breasted silk-crowned bird is a tropical forest bird that inhabits tropical and subtropical montane forests at altitudes below 1500 m.
It also inhabits small trees or shrublands along forest edges and streams, and sometimes on banyan trees and small trees on the edges of villages or in the Tianba area.
It is often active in small groups, especially in groups of 10-20 or so. Multi-activity under the canopy layer.
Hi Jingqi, not good at jumping and chirping, the sound is low, like "Oh... Chirp...". He is not afraid of people, and his response to gunshots is relatively slow, and sometimes specimens collected by multiple gunshots still do not fly away. Keep birds, do not migrate.
Tropical forest birds that mainly feed on insects, especially insects such as bugs, beetles, locusts, weevils, celestial bulls and other coleoptera, orthoptera, hemiptera and other insects are more likely to eat, and the incidence is also high. In addition, it eats spiders, snails and other small invertebrates, and occasionally eats plant foods such as fruits.
It is included in the "List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection in China" at the second level.
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