Dicaeidae

The flowerpeckers are a family, Dicaeidae, of passerine birds. The family comprises three genera, Dicaeum, Prionochilus and Pachyglossa, with 56 species in total. The family has sometimes been included in an enlarged sunbird family Nectariniidae. The berrypeckers of the family Melanocharitidae and the painted berrypeckers, Paramythiidae, were once lumped into this family as well. The family is distributed through tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia. The family has a wide range occupying a wide range of environments from sea level to

Prionochilus is one of the three genera of flowerpeckers that make up the family Dicaeidae. The genus differs from the genus Dicaeum in having ten long primary feathers in the wing and in the character of its calls. A study comparing the calls of the two genera suggested that Prionochilus is basal to Dicaeum. The genus contains 5 species, in contrast to the 44 species in the genus Dicaeum. They have a more restricted distribution than Dicaeum, occurring in the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Malay Peninsula.

thumb|200px|Pale-billed flowerpecker Dicaeum erythrorhynchos with a [[Muntingia calabura berry (Hyderabad, India)]] 200px|thumb|Thick-billed flowerpecker Dicaeum agile on [[Helicteres isora ]] Dicaeum is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia. Within the family Dicaeidae the genus Dicaeum is sister to a clade containing the genera Prionochilus and Pachyglossa.

genus of birds