Dicaeum

Dicaeum
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Dicaeidae
Genus:	Dicaeum Cuvier, 1816
Species
see text

Pale-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum erythrorhynchos with a Muntingia calabura berry (Hyderabad, India)

Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile on Helicteres isora

Dicaeum is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia. The genus is closely related to the genus Prionochilus and forms a monophyletic group.^[1][2]

Its members 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 in taxonomic order

• 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
• Visayan Flowerpecker, Dicaeum haematostictum
• Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker, Dicaeum retrocinctum
• Orange-bellied Flowerpecker, Dicaeum trigonostigma
• Pale-billed Flowerpecker, Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
• Nilgiri Flowerpecker, Dicaeum concolor
• Plain Flowerpecker, Dicaeum minullum
• 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

References

1. ^ Nyária, Árpád S.; Peterson, A. Townsend ; Rice, Nathan H.; Moyle, Robert G. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships of flowerpeckers (Aves: Dicaeidae): Novel insights into the evolution of a tropical passerine clade". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53 (3): 613–19. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.014. PMID 19576993. 
2. ^ "Notes on flowerpeckers (Aves, Dicaeidae). 2, The primitive species of the genus Dicaeum. American Museum novitates ; no. 1991". American Museum novitates 1991. 1960. hdl:2246/3544. 

External links

• Flowerpecker videos and photographs