Banded Broadbill

Other names
Purple-headed Broadbill, Horsfield's Broadbill.

Desciption
It is a husky, forest-dwelling bird with a large head and a wide bill (used to help catch insects). The banded broadbill is atoned in purplish, black and yellow hues. It has a large purplish-black band across its chest, hence its name. Its eyes are bluish-grey. Its bill is greyish and edged in black, resembling lipstick. It has various yellow spots on its wings and some yellow on its rump.

Similar species
It is similar to the Black-and-yellow Broadbill, except that it's mainly atoned in black and peach, not purple.

Behaviour
They sit motionlessly in the trees, in small groups or pairs and scan for moving prey. When they spot something, usually in the foliage, they fly out to grab it.

Diet
It feeds on grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, beetles, caterpillars, spiders, small snails, some fruit, and maybe small lizard.

Calls
They regularly give long vocalization that starts with a brief wheeooo sound, continuing with a long, ascending trill that may last up to five seconds.

They sometimes sing these calls as duets, with the second bird beginning just after the first.

Another, longer vocalization is a yelping keek-eek-eek; a brief one is a nasal whee-u.

Distribution/habitat
It is from Southeast Occidental and lives in forested areas, typically near rivers, streams, and swamps, but venturing into old, overgrown plantations and sometimes parks and gardens.