White-throated Flowerpecker

Taxobox
name = White-throated Flowerpecker
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = down
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Dicaeidae
genus = " Dicaeum "
species = "D. vincens"
binomial = "Dicaeum vincens"
binomial_authority = (Sclater, 1872)The White-throated Flowerpecker or Legge's Flowerpecker (" Dicaeum vincens") [cite book |title= A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India: And the Indian Subcontinent, Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & the Maldives|last= Grewal|first= Bikram |authorlink= |coauthors= Bill Harvey, Otto Pfister|year= 2003|publisher= Princeton University Press|location= |isbn= 069111496X|pages= 497|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=tbrlBqahZfIC&pg=PA497&dq=%22White-throated+Flowerpecker%22&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U1YmR0bRUsJuI9Cq3jC6P2vPUJpyg] is a small passerine bird. It is a endemic resident breeder in Sri Lanka.

The White-throated Flowerpecker is a common resident breeding bird of forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens. Two eggs are laid in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.

This is a very small, stout flowerpecker, 10cm in length, with a short tail, short thick curved bill and tubular tongue. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in its diet, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken.

The male White-throated Flowerpecker has blue-black upperparts, a white throat and upper breast, and yellow lower breast and belly. The female is duller, with olive-brown upperparts.

References

* Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
* "Birds of India" by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6

External links

* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/familia.phtml?idFamilia=168 Flowerpecker videos] on the Internet Bird Collection