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Spectacled Flowerpecker (1 Viewer)

They say that the calls are similar to those made by the Fire-breasted Flowerpecker D. igniventris. Isn't it D. ignipectus ?
Oops! The OBC website states that BirdingASIA 12 is at the printers. Stop press...

Richard ;)

PS. Too late - just received e-mail: "BirdingASIA 12 is now at the mailing house and should be sent out to UK
members before the end of this week".
 
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...The Fire-breasted Flowerpecker D. igniventris. Isn't it D. ignipectus ?
It is ignipectus, named by Blythe/Hodgson in Nov./Dec. 1843 J. A. S. Bengal. If it was igniventris it would be the Fire-bellied Flowerpecker not the Fire-breasted!
 
quite a striking bird in it's own understated way! Amazing that it hasn't been recorded before, given the number of birders at DV. The again there are even more striking precedants...

Wouldn't mind betting that there's a specimen or two tucked away in a draw somewhere.
 
how many birder than have seen this bird and misidentified it or assumed it was some weird morph or out of area stray? Really makes you wonder what is missed right under your nose when birding
 
yeah but people must have seen or heard a dot of a flowerpecker flying overhead and think nothing of it, most of the flyover flowerpeckers i've seen have had this treatment!
 
I posted this comment on the Borneo thread yesterday (managed to miss this thread despite searching!)...

"It's interesting that a canopy specialist, if that is what it is, can be so cryptic but echoes a similar case with the discovery of Choco Vireo in Colombia in the early 1990s, which is a small, high canopy species that moves quickly through the forest near the front of bird waves (and is thus difficult to detect)."
 
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Sykes & Loseby 2015

Edwards, Webster & Rowlett 2009. 'Spectacled Flowerpecker': a species new to science discovered in Borneo? BirdingASIA 12: 38–41. [pdf]
Sykes & Loseby 2015. More on Borneo's 'Spectacled' Flowerpecker. BirdingASIA 23: 126–127.

(Includes three photos of the undescribed species.)
 
It has been officially described now.

A distinctive new species of flowerpecker (Passeriformes: Dicaeidae) from Borneo
JACOB R. SAUCIER, CHRISTOPHER M. MILENSKY, MARCOS A. CARABALLO-ORTIZ, ROSLINA RAGAI, N. FARIDAH DAHLAN, DAVID P. EDWARDS Zootaxa Vol 4686, No 4 17 Oct. 2019

Abstract

The enigmatic ‘Spectacled Flowerpecker’—a probable new bird species from the island of Borneo—was first sighted in the Danum Valley of Sabah, Malaysia in 2009. However, the absence of a holotype specimen has prevented its formal scientific description. Since then only a handful of reports from widely disparate localities across the island have emerged, all from lowland sites and often in close association with fruiting mistletoe. Here, we report the long-awaited capture of a specimen of this putative new species and confirm its morphological and molecular distinctiveness as a novel species in the genus Dicaeum.

Dicaeum dayakorum, species novum

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https://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4686.4.1
 
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