Common Iora

Bangkok, Thailand

The common iora is widespread across the Indian subcontinent, Southern China and Southeast Asia.

Habitat

It haa adapted to a wide range of arboreal habitats on the fringe of forests, wooded areas, scrubland, farmland and parks and gardens, although it tends to avoid dense forest.

Feeding

Common ioras tend to forage in small groups for insects.

Breeding

The common iora constructs a small, neat, cup-shaped nest of grasses bound together with cobwebs and positioned in the fork of a tree. Both parents incubate two to four greenish-white eggs and also share chick rearing.

Wildfile Extra

Eggs and chicks are predated by lizards, snakes and crows and are the victims of brood parasitism by banded bay cuckoos.