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Alternative names: Green-backed, Buff-bellied, Cambodian, Luzon, Sumatran or Bronze-backed Flowerpecker

Photo by cskhaw
Fraser's hill, Malaysia, July 2005

Dicaeum ignipectus

Dicaeum ignipectum

Distribution

From the Himalayas over south-central China to Taiwan, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and Sumatra.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 8 subspecies^[1]:

• D. i. ignipectus:

• Eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) to south-central China, Burma and Indochina

• 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 ountains, evergreen forests.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

• List of references

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