Yellow-vented flowerpecker

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Yellow-vented flowerpecker
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Yellow-vented Flowerpecker in Guwahati, Assam, India
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Pachyglossa
Species:
P. chrysorrhea
Binomial name
Pachyglossa chrysorrhea
(Temminck, 1829)
Synonyms

Dicaeum chrysorrheum

The yellow-vented flowerpecker (Pachyglossa chrysorrhea) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. [1] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. [2] While most species have vestigial outermost primary feathers, those of the yellow-vented flowerpecker are elongated. [3] This species was formerly placed in the genus Dicaeum .

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International (2016). "Dicaeum chrysorrheum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22717484A94534755. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22717484A94534755.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Dicaeum chrysorrheum: Classification Schemes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Nyári, Árpád S.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Rice, Nathan H.; Moyle, Robert G. (2009-12-01). "Phylogenetic relationships of flowerpeckers (Aves: Dicaeidae): Novel insights into the evolution of a tropical passerine clade" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (3): 613–619. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.014. hdl: 1808/6569 . ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   19576993.


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