Bicolored Flowerpecker
Dicaeum bicolor
A tiny bird of lowland and foothill forest and edge. Male has black upperparts with a bluish sheen and whitish underparts washed pale gray on the sides. Female has whitish underparts, brown upperparts, more olive in the wing, and gray on the head. Similar to Flame-crowned Flowerpecker, but male lacks the bright crown patch and female has a whitish rather than yellowish belly. Differs from White-bellied Flowerpecker in its thicker bill. Voice includes a grating “juk!” and a high-pitched metallic “chink!”
Identification
Small, short thick bill, sexes differ, in inexpectatum male upperparts glossy blue black; throat, center of breast, belly, and under tail coverts white; sides and flanks light grey; pectoral tufts white. female upperparts olive green; underparts light olive grey; center of breast and belly yellowish white; pectoral tufts yellow white.<p>This consists of three subspecies
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Dicaeum bicolor
- Authority
- (Bourns & Worcester, 1894)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicaeidae
- Genus
- Dicaeum
Range and habitat
Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forest and more rarely on tropical moist montane forests of up to 2,250 meters above sea level. They often form mixed flocks with other flowerpecker species, white-eyes, sunbirds, fantails and other small forest birds.
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
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