Sumatran Flowerpecker
Dicaeum beccarii
Range-restricted flowerpecker endemic to the montane forests of Sumatra. Adult male is dark blue above and pale creamy white below, with a black stripe down the center of the belly and a slight pinkish wash on the breast. Female is much plainer, brownish-olive above and pale buff below. Gives a short, high-pitched buzzy song, as well as lower-pitched buzzy “prbt” notes. Formerly treated as a subspecies of Fire-breasted Flowerpecker.
Taxonomy
The Sumatran flowerpecker was formally described in 1916 by the British zoologists Herbert C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss based on three specimens that they had collected on Mount Kerinci on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. They coined the binomial name Dicaeum beccarii. They chose the specific epithet to honour the Italian botanist and explorer Odoardo Beccari. The Sumatran flowerpecker was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus) but based on differences in plumage, it is now treated as a separate species. It is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
- Scientific name
- Dicaeum beccarii
- Authority
- Robinson & Kloss, 1916
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicaeidae
- Genus
- Dicaeum
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
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Distribution
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