Bicolored flowerpecker
Bicolored flowerpecker | |
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Bicolored Flowerpecker (inexpectatum subspecies) feeding of figs in Quezon. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Dicaeidae |
Genus: | Dicaeum |
Species: | D. bicolor
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Binomial name | |
Dicaeum bicolor (Bourns & Worcester, 1894)
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The bicolored flowerpecker (Dicaeum bicolor) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Habitat[]
Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forest and more rarely on tropical moist montane forests of up to 2,250 meters above sea level.[2] They often form mixed flocks with other flowerpecker species, white-eyes, sunbirds, fantails and other small forest birds.
Description[]
Small, short thick bill, sexes differ, in inexpectatum male upperparts glossy blue black; throat, center of breast, belly, and under tail coverts white; sides and flanks light grey; pectoral tufts white. female upperparts olive green; underparts light olive grey; center of breast and belly yellowish white; pectoral tufts yellow white.
This consists of three subspecies
- D. b. bicolor: Leyte, Samar, Mindanao and Bohol
- D. b. inexpectatum Luzon, Mindoro and Catanduanes
- D. b. viridissimum: Panay, Negros and Guimaras (extinct)[3]
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Dicaeum bicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22717503A94535982. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22717503A94535982.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Allen, Desmond (2020). Birds of the Philippines. Lynx. pp. 342–343.
- ^ Allen, Desmond (2020). Birds of the Philippines. Lynx. pp. 342–343.
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Dicaeum
- Endemic birds of the Philippines
- Birds described in 1894
- Taxa named by Frank Swift Bourns
- Taxa named by Dean Conant Worcester
- Passeri stubs