Flowerpecker
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Flowerpeckers
Pale-billed or Tickell's Flowerpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri 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.

There is little variation between species in the family, which are placed into just two genera. Flowerpeckers are stout birds, often dull in colour, although in several species the males have brightly patterned crimson or glossy-black plumage. These are small birds ranging from the 10-cm, 5.7-gram Pygmy Flowerpecker to the 18-cm, 12-gram Mottled Flowerpecker. Flowerpeckers have short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although they also take berries, spiders and insects.^[1]

Flowerpeckers lay 2-4 eggs, typically in a purse-like nest of plant fibres, suspended from a small tree or shrub.

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References

External links

• Flowerpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection