Biology:Bicolored flowerpecker

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Short description: Species of bird

Bicolored flowerpecker
Bicolored Flowerpecker.jpg
Bicolored Flowerpecker (inexpectatum subspecies) feeding of figs in Quezon.
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species:
D. bicolor
Binomial name
Dicaeum bicolor
(Bourns & Worcester, 1894)

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

A skin of the bicolor sub-species.

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

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Dicaeum bicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22717503A94535982. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22717503A94535982.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22717503/94535982. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Allen, Desmond (2020). Birds of the Philippines. Lynx. pp. 342–343. 
  3. Allen, Desmond (2020). Birds of the Philippines. Lynx. pp. 342–343. 


Wikidata ☰ Q933231 entry