Fire-breasted Flowerpecker - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies D. i. dolichorhynchum
Photo © by cskhaw
Fraser's hill, Malaysia, July 2005

Dicaeum ignipectum

Identification

Nominate subspecies, male
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, 6 October 2017

7–9 cm (2¾-3½ in)
Male

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

Nominate subspecies, female
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal Forest, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, 16 April 2017

Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:

D. i. ignipectus:
- Eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) to south-central China, Myanmar and Indochina
D. i. dolichorhynchum:
- Mountains of southern peninsula Thailand and Malay Peninsula
D. i. formosum:
- Montane forests of Taiwan

Low altitude mountains, evergreen forests.

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

Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 14.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2015)

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fire-breasted Flowerpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fire-breasted_Flowerpecker

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