Common Iora is a very common breeding
resident distributed mainly in gardens, scrublands, and forest edges of low
country and lower hills up to 1000m a.s.l. But it is much common in dry zone.
Iora lives in pairs and feeds on insects, especially on caterpillars among
leaves of trees. While feeding it keeps in touch with each others by frequently
calling in variety of whistling sounds. Breeding season is mainly from April to
June and the nest a little cup made out of fibers and cobwebs fastened to a twig
of a tree where it lays 2 or 3 eggs.
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