Dicaeum
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Dicaeum is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia.
Its members are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, 10 to 18 cm in length, with short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken.
2-4 eggs are laid, typically in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.
[edit] Species in taxonomic order
- Golden-rumped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum annae
- Thick-billed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum agile
- Brown-backed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum everetti
- Whiskered Flowerpecker, Dicaeum proprium
- Yellow-vented Flowerpecker, Dicaeum chrysorrheum
- Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker, Dicaeum melanoxanthum
- White-throated Flowerpecker, Dicaeum vincens
- Yellow-sided Flowerpecker, Dicaeum aureolimbatum
- Olive-capped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum nigrilore
- Flame-crowned Flowerpecker, Dicaeum anthonyi
- Bicolored Flowerpecker, Dicaeum bicolor
- Cebu Flowerpecker, Dicaeum quadricolor
- Red-striped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum australe
- Red-keeled Flowerpecker, Dicaeum haematostictum
- Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker, Dicaeum retrocinctum
- Orange-bellied Flowerpecker, Dicaeum trigonostigma
- Pale-billed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
- Plain Flowerpecker, Dicaeum concolor
- Flame-breasted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum erythrothorax
- White-bellied Flowerpecker, Dicaeum hypoleucum
- Pygmy Flowerpecker, Dicaeum pygmaeum
- Crimson-crowned Flowerpecker, Dicaeum nehrkorni
- Ashy Flowerpecker, Dicaeum vulneratum
- Olive-crowned Flowerpecker, Dicaeum pectorale
- Red-capped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum geelvinkianum
- Louisiade Flowerpecker, Dicaeum nitidum
- Red-banded Flowerpecker, Dicaeum eximium
- Midget Flowerpecker, Dicaeum aeneum
- Mottled Flowerpecker, Dicaeum tristrami
- Black-fronted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum igniferum
- Red-chested Flowerpecker, Dicaeum maugei
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum ignipectus
- Black-sided Flowerpecker, Dicaeum monticolum
- Grey-sided Flowerpecker, Dicaeum celebicum
- Blood-breasted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum sanguinolentum
- Mistletoebird, Dicaeum hirundinaceum
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum cruentatum
- Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum trochileum
[edit] External links
- Flowerpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection
[edit] References
- Hayman, Marchant and Prater, Shorebirds ISBN 0-873403-19-4
