Bicolored flowerpecker

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Bicolored flowerpecker
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Bicolored Flowerpecker (inexpectatum subspecies) feeding of figs in Quezon.
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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.

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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. Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.99900 1 - Dicaeum bicolor bicolor Bourns and Worcester, 1894 - Dicaeidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg
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

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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 . 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.