Plain flowerpecker
Plain flowerpecker | |
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At Nagarkot, Nepal | |
Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Dicaeidae |
Genus: | Dicaeum |
Species: | D. minullum |
Binomial name | |
Dicaeum minullum R. Swinhoe, 1870 |
The plain flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum) is a bird in the family Dicaeidae. The species was described and given its binomial name by Robert Swinhoe in 1870.[1] It is found in the central Himalayas, through western Indonesia to Taiwan.
Description
These birds are tiny (9 cm long) and there is no marked difference between the males and females. The subspecies found in northeastern India, extending into Myanmar, Laos and southern China is called olivaceum by earlier authors but is treated by Pamela C. Rasmussen as a separate species Dicaeum minullum (which includes the population minullum from Hainan Island and is now termed as the plain flowerpecker in the more restricted sense).[2]
Behaviour and ecology
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Like many flowerpeckers, it favours mistletoe for foraging.
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- Golden-rumped flowerpecker (D. annae)
- Thick-billed flowerpecker (D. agile)
- Striped flowerpecker (D. aeruginosum)
- Brown-backed flowerpecker (D. everetti)
- Whiskered flowerpecker (D. proprium)
- Yellow-vented flowerpecker (D. chrysorrheum)
- Yellow-bellied flowerpecker (D. melanoxanthum)
- Legge's flowerpecker (D. vincens)
- Yellow-sided flowerpecker (D. aureolimbatum)
- Olive-capped flowerpecker (D. nigrilore)
- Flame-crowned flowerpecker (D. kampalili)
- Yellow-crowned flowerpecker (D. anthonyi)
- Bicolored flowerpecker (D. bicolor)
- Cebu flowerpecker (D. quadricolor)
- Red-keeled flowerpecker (D. australe)
- Black-belted flowerpecker (D. haematostictum)
- Scarlet-collared flowerpecker (D. retrocinctum)
- Orange-bellied flowerpecker (D. trigonostigma)
- Pale-billed flowerpecker (D. erythrorhynchos)
- Nilgiri flowerpecker (D. concolor)
- Plain flowerpecker (D. minullum)
- Andaman flowerpecker (D. virescens)
- Buru flowerpecker (D. erythrothorax)
- Halmahera flowerpecker (D. schistaceiceps)
- Buzzing flowerpecker (D. hypoleucum)
- Pygmy flowerpecker (D. pygmaeum)
- Crimson-crowned flowerpecker (D. nehrkorni)
- Ashy flowerpecker (D. vulneratum)
- Olive-crowned flowerpecker (D. pectorale)
- Red-capped flowerpecker (D. geelvinkianum)
- Louisiade flowerpecker (D. nitidum)
- Red-banded flowerpecker (D. eximium)
- Midget flowerpecker (D. aeneum)
- Mottled flowerpecker (D. tristrami)
- Black-fronted flowerpecker (D. igniferum)
- Blue-cheeked flowerpecker (D. maugei)
- Fire-breasted flowerpecker (D. ignipectus)
- Black-sided flowerpecker (D. monticolum)
- Grey-sided flowerpecker (D. celebicum)
- Blood-breasted flowerpecker (D. sanguinolentum)
- Mistletoebird (D. hirundinaceum)
- Scarlet-backed flowerpecker (D. cruentatum)
- Scarlet-headed flowerpecker (D. trochileum)
- Wakatobi flowerpecker (D. kuehni)
- Yellow-breasted flowerpecker (P. maculatus)
- Olive-backed flowerpecker (P. olivaceus)
- Crimson-breasted flowerpecker (P. percussus)
- Palawan flowerpecker (P. plateni)
- Scarlet-breasted flowerpecker (P. thoracicus)
- Yellow-rumped flowerpecker (P. xanthopygius)
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