Alternative names: Green-backed, Buff-bellied, Cambodian, Luzon, Sumatran or Bronze-backed Flowerpecker
- Dicaeum ignipectus
Dicaeum ignipectum
Identification
Nominate subspecies, male
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, October-2017
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, October-2017
7–9 cm (2¾-3½ in)
Male
- Greenish blue-black crown and upperparts
- Black face
- Whitish throat
Distribution
Asia: found from the Himalayas over south-central China to Taiwan, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and Sumatra.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Nominate subspecies, female
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, April-2017
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, April-2017
There are 8 subspecies[1]:
- D. i. ignipectus:
- D. i. dolichorhynchum:
- Mountains of southern peninsula Thailand and Malay Peninsula
- D. i. cambodianum:
- Mountains of eastern Thailand and Cambodia
- D. i. formosum:
- Montane forests of Taiwan
- D. i. luzoniense:
- Northern Philippines (montane forests of northern Luzon)
- D. i. bonga:
- Central Philippines (Samar Island)
- D. i. apo:
- Mountains of southern Philippines (Negros and Mindanao)
- D. i. beccarii:
- Montane forests of Sumatra
Habitat
Low altitude mountains, evergreen forests.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists of fruit and nectar, particularly figs and mistletoe. They also eat spiders.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2015)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Fire-breasted Flowerpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Fire-breasted_Flowerpecker
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