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Green Figbird
Figbird (Sphecotheres viridis) - Flickr - Lip Kee (3)
Male
Information
Common Name Timor Figbird
Range Southeast Asian islands of Timor and Roti.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Oriolidae
Genus Sphecotheres
Species Sphecotheres viridis
Conservation Status
LCSpecies
Least Concern

The Green figbird or Timor figbird (Sphecotheres viridis), is a species of figbird in the Oriolidae family. It is endemic to forest, woodland, mangrove and scrub on the Southeast Asian islands of Timor and Roti. It is moderately common, and therefore considered to be of Least Concern by BirdLife International and the IUCN. It has sometimes included the two other figbirds as subspecies, in which case the combined species simply was known as "figbird", but today all major authorities consider them as separate species. It resembles the more widespread Australasian figbird, but is smaller and, except for the paler crissum (around the cloaca), the male is entirely yellow-olive below (including the throat).

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