The Lesser Green Leafbird blends with foliage, while the male has a black face and blue throat. It searches for food in the canopy of Southeast Asian lowland forest.
The male is green with a black face and blue throat. Females and juveniles are green overall; a female may have a slight yellow tinge on the throat.
It forages alone or in pairs in the canopy for fruit, arthropods, and nectar. It may join mixed-species foraging flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.