A smooth, silky appearance is further enhanced by glossy blues and striking silver band across her breast.
A bird small quiet bird whose silky, smooth-feathered appearance is only enhanced by glossy blues and a prominent black crescent!
There is a small amount of sexual dimorphism in the plumage, with the female having a narrow silver band across the breast.
Young birds resemble adults but with shorter wings and tails, and slightly darker plumage overall.
These birds are found throughout much of South East Asia in countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
They prefer to live in and around subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
The silver-breasted broadbill mainly dines on insects such as grasshoppers, mantises, caterpillars, larvae, and small land snails. Insects are taken on the wing from perch or by gleaning branches and foliage.
The global population size of the silver-breasted broadbill has not been quantified. The overall population trend of these species is reported to be decreasing.
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