Fire-breasted Flowerpecker - BirdForum Opus

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

Identification

7–9 cm (2¾-3½ in)
Male

• Greenish blue-black crown and upperparts
• Black face
• Whitish throat

Distribution

Nominate subspecies, male
Photo by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, October-2017

Asia: found from the Himalayas over south-central China to Taiwan, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and Sumatra.

Taxonomy

Ssp. ignipectus : Female
Photo by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, April-2017

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 mountains, evergreen forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of fruit and nectar, particularly figs and mistletoe. They also eat spiders.

References

Female
Photo by robby thai
Nap Tok Mae Surin NP, Thailand, February 2017

1. 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/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2015)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fire-breasted Flowerpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fire-breasted_Flowerpecker

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