African Green Broadbill

Vulnerable

Endemic to the Albertine Rift

http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/birds/taxoninfo?id=343

Stunning images are shown at the African Bird Club link:

http://www.birdquest.net/afbid/search.php?func=searchresult&af_bs_id=1090

E DR Congo (in the Itombwe Mountains and the mountains W of Lake Kivu) and SW Uganda (in the Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest)

Primary rainforest (up to 20 m off ground, but usually in middle strata in Bwindi), and also forest edge and isolated trees in cleared ground (BirdLife International 2011)

Forest and edges (Lack 2010)

Small, rotund, short-tailed, overall leaf-green in colour with blue throat, breast and rump

Resident

10 cm