Timor Flowerpecker
Dicaeum hanieli
Small and stout forest-dweller that hops and buzzes about in the canopy like a large, active insect. Note male’s iridescent dark blue back, red chest patch, and black line extending partway down the white belly. As with many other flowerpeckers, the female is considerably duller, with a red rump patch being the only patch of bright color on her otherwise gray-brown plumage. Endemic to Timor, where found in montane and foothill forests. Song is a brief, high-pitched and silvery burst of whistled notes: “tsee’di-lee’see.”
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Dicaeum hanieli
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicaeidae
- Genus
- Dicaeum
Photos
Distribution
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