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. (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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