Fire-breasted Flowerpecker - BirdForum Opus

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

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

Dicaeum ignipectus

Dicaeum ignipectum

Identification

Nominate subspecies, male
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

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

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

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

References

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 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fire-breasted_Flowerpecker

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