Buru flowerpecker

Last updated October 01, 2025

Buru flowerpecker

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Dicaeidae
Genus:	Dicaeum
Species:	D. erythrothorax
Binomial name
*Dicaeum erythrothorax* Lesson & Garnot, 1828

The Buru flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrothorax) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae. It is endemic to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is restricted to Buru.

The Halmahera flowerpecker was until recently considered a subspecies.

References

↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Dicaeum erythrothorax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T103776345A94538261. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103776345A94538261.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.

v t e Dicaeidae (flowerpeckers)
Genus	Species
Dicaeum	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)
Prionochilus	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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Taxon identifiers
Dicaeum erythrothorax	Wikidata: Q10755125 Wikispecies: Dicaeum erythrothorax ADW: Dicaeum_erythrothorax Avibase: 2F3F39C5FBDFB017 BirdLife: 103776345 BOW: flbflo2 CoL: 6D4PW eBird: flbflo2 EoL: 1051702 GBIF: 2484712 iNaturalist: 204500 IRMNG: 10218171 ITIS: 559729 IUCN: 103776345 Open Tree of Life: 3597771 Xeno-canto: Dicaeum-erythrothorax

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