Birds Guide

Flowerpeckers
Pale-billed or Tickell's Flowerpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Aves   Order: Passeriformes   Family: Dicaeidae Bonaparte, 1853
Genera
Prionochilus Dicaeum

The flowerpeckers are a family of passerine birds found in tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia.

These are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, 10 to 18 cm in length, with short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken.

2-4 eggs are laid, typically in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.

Species

• Family: Dicaeidae
  • Olive-backed Flowerpecker, Prionochilus olivaceus
    Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker, Prionochilus maculatus
    Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker, Prionochilus percussus
    Palawan Flowerpecker, Prionochilus plateni
    Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker, Prionochilus xanthopygius
    Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker, Prionochilus thoracicus
    Golden-rumped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum annae
    Thick-billed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum agile
    Brown-backed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum everetti
    Whiskered Flowerpecker, Dicaeum proprium
    Yellow-vented Flowerpecker, Dicaeum chrysorrheum
    Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker, Dicaeum melanoxanthum
    White-throated Flowerpecker, Dicaeum vincens
    Yellow-sided Flowerpecker, Dicaeum aureolimbatum
    Olive-capped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum nigrilore
    Flame-crowned Flowerpecker, Dicaeum anthonyi
    Bicolored Flowerpecker, Dicaeum bicolor
    Cebu Flowerpecker, Dicaeum quadricolor
    Red-striped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum australe
    Red-keeled Flowerpecker, Dicaeum haematostictum
    Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker, Dicaeum retrocinctum
    Orange-bellied Flowerpecker, Dicaeum trigonostigma
    Pale-billed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
    Plain Flowerpecker, Dicaeum concolor
    Flame-breasted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum erythrothorax
    White-bellied Flowerpecker, Dicaeum hypoleucum
    Pygmy Flowerpecker, Dicaeum pygmaeum
    Crimson-crowned Flowerpecker, Dicaeum nehrkorni
    Ashy Flowerpecker, Dicaeum vulneratum
    Olive-crowned Flowerpecker, Dicaeum pectorale
    Red-capped Flowerpecker, Dicaeum geelvinkianum
    Louisiade Flowerpecker, Dicaeum nitidum
    Red-banded Flowerpecker, Dicaeum eximium
    Midget Flowerpecker, Dicaeum aeneum
    Mottled Flowerpecker, Dicaeum tristrami
    Black-fronted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum igniferum
    Red-chested Flowerpecker, Dicaeum maugei
    Fire-breasted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum ignipectus
    Black-sided Flowerpecker, Dicaeum monticolum
    Grey-sided Flowerpecker, Dicaeum celebicum
    Blood-breasted Flowerpecker, Dicaeum sanguinolentum
    Mistletoebird, Dicaeum hirundinaceum
    Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum cruentatum
    Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum trochileum

External links

• Flowerpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection