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Encyclopedia > Aegithinidae
Ioras
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Aegithinidae
Genus
Aegithina

The ioras are a family of small passerine bird species found in India and southeast Asia. They one of only two bird families that are entirely endemic to the Indomalayan ecozone. They were formerly grouped with the leafbirds in the family Irenidae.


These are bulbul-like birds of open forest or thorn scrub, but whereas that group tends to be drab in coloration, ioras are sexually dimorphic, with the males being brightly plumaged in yellows and greens.


Ioras eat insects and spiders. They lay 2-3 eggs in a tree nest.

  • Family: Aegithinidae
    • Common Iora, Aegithina tiphia
    • White-tailed Iora, Aegithina nigrolutea
    • Green Iora, Aegithina viridissima
    • Great Iora, Aegithina lafresnayei

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One of them is the Yellow-throated Leafbird (right), found only on Palawan I. and adjacent Balabac and Calamian islands.
Leafbirds were traditionally considered closely related to the Ioras (Aegithinidae).
Like ioras they tend to forage alone or in pair in the subcanopy, often eating berries and fruit and well as insect prey.
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