
Dollarbird
30 cm. It is dark brown with a bluish-green sheen on the back and wing coverts. It has glossy bright blue colouring on its throat and undertail. Its flight feathers are a darker blue. Its bill is short and wide and in mature animals is coloured orange-red with a black tip. It has very light blue patches on the outer parts of its wings which are highly visible in flight and for which it is named.
Habitat:
Seen often in the area of Sukau, always at the top of very tall trees.

The dollarbird is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings. It can be found in south-west Pacific and east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan archipelago and India.