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Dicaeum
Sign in to savethumb|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.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyDicaeidae
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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.
Its members are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, 10 to 18 cm in length, with short tails, short, thick curved bills and tubular tongues. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken.