The banded broadbill “Eurylaimus
javanicus”It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The bird’s natural habitat is subtropical or
tropical moist lowland forests. The species is a husky, forest-dwelling bird
with a large head and a wide bill is atoned in purplish, black and yellow hues.
It has a large purplish-black band across its chest, bluish-grey eyes have
various yellow spots on its wings and some yellow on its rump. The birds prefer
swamp forest, evergreen and mixed deciduous forest near rivers and streams on
plantations, in gardens and parks, and around villages.
The species is a large broadbill
average 21.5–23 cm, with purple, yellow and black plumage. The diet consist of eats
predominantly insects, including grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, various beetles,
caterpillars, larvae also recorded eating figs. The specie naturally builds a
large nest suspended from a tree branch. The bird’s voice is typical song a
far-carrying, brief, sharp “wheeoo” continuing with a long, ascending trill
that may last up to five seconds. The Banded Broadbill is alike to the
Black-and-yellow Broadbill, except that it's mostly atoned in black and peach,
not purple.
The species is evaluated as least
concern, because it has an extremely large range, hence does not approach the
thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion. This species may be rarely targeted for the
cagebird trade, some forest loss within its altitudinal range, especially
around Carita, and including at the lower edges of protected areas. The bird
naturally sits motionlessly in the trees, in small groups or pairs and scan for
moving prey. When they spot something, habitually in the foliage, they fly out
to grab it
