Plain Flowerpecker Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
Family : Dicaeidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : All kind of forests
Description : The Plain Flowerpecker is a tiny dull brown passerine of the treetops with a dark bill (length 9 cm, weight 7.5 g, wing 4.8 cm, tarsus 1.3 cm, tail 2.6 cm approximately). The upperparts are dull olive-brown to olive-green with a darker tail. A narrow supercilium and all of the underparts are greyish-white, more olive on the breast and yellowish white on the vent and undertail-coverts. It has brown irises, a thin dark plumbeous-grey bill, plumbeous legs and feet and grey soles. It feeds on berries, nectar, insects and spiders. It breeds in March-August.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Dicaeum cruentatum
(Fire-breasted Flowerpecker) -
Aethopyga ignicauda
(Green‑tailed Sunbird) -
Dicaeum chrysorrheum
(Thick‑billed Flowerpecker) -
Cinnyris asiaticus
(Olive-backed Sunbird) -
Dicaeum melanoxanthum
(Yellow‑vented Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum ignipectus
(Little Spiderhunter) -
Dicaeum agile
(Orange‑bellied Flowerpecker)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills
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Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters
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Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits
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Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby
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Flamingo
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Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes
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Nightjars -
Barn-owls
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Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Vijay Anand Ismavel (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Vijay Anand Ismavel ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Andrew Spencer(www.xeno-canto.org/Andrew Spencer), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Vijay Anand Ismavel (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Vijay Anand Ismavel ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Andrew Spencer(www.xeno-canto.org/Andrew Spencer), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.