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Dicaeum
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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.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyDicaeidae
Observations recorded1,216,725

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
381
With media
16
Family
Dicaeidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, ANWC, CLO, CUMV, CMNH, FMNH
Recorded in
Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Nepal

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
sunbird
Image
Mistletoebird wynn05.jpg
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Commons category
Dicaeum
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Dicaeum
topic's main category
Category:Dicaeum
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Dicaeum
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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • References
  • External links

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dicaeum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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