A tiny, peaceful bird with fine, silky feathers, whose glossy blues and noticeable black crescent only serve to accentuate its look!
The female has a thin silver band across her breast, which is a modest example of sexual dimorphism in the plumage.The wings and tails of young birds are shorter than those of adults, and their general plumage is a little Ьіt darker.Many South East Asian nations, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, and Vietnam, are home to these birds.
They prefer to live in and around subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
The silver-breasted broadbill mainly dines on insects such as grasshoppers, mantises, caterpillars, larvae, and small land snails. Insects are taken on the wing from perch or by gleaning branches and foliage.
The breeding season of the silver-breasted broadbill ѕрeсіeѕ is from March to August. These birds are monogamous. A bulky untidy ball of twigs with a lateral entrance the nest is һᴜпɡ from the tip of a tree branch with an average height of two meters above the ground. Both birds take part in its construction. The clutch of 3 to 5, glossy, white, oval-shaped eggs are laid within and incubated for about 15 days. The hatchlings are strongly altricial and һeɩрɩeѕѕ, blind and featherless. Both parents incubate the eggs and care for the young.
The global population size of the silver-breasted broadbill has not been quantified. The overall population trend of these ѕрeсіeѕ is reported to be decreasing.