Betau Valley

Betau Valley

Saturday 7 March 2020

Drunken Leaf Bird

A few weeks ago I was on my way up the staircase to the garden at GTE when I stumbled upon a seemingly drunk Blue-winged Leaf Bird, Chloropsis cochinchinensis. It must have been unwell (never touch any sicken bird if anything we have learnt from all the transmissible diseases ) or in a stupor (for example having consumed too much over-ripen fruits) but as I got near, it did not make any effort to move until I started using flash from my camera: it started to "wake up" and in a few instances flew away into the bushes...





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