Fire-breasted Flowerpecker

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Dicaeidae (Flowerpeckers)

Fire-breasted Flowerpecker

Dicaeum ignipectus

红胸啄花鸟 (hóng-xiōng zhuó-huā-niǎo)

    Malay : Sepah-Puteri Gunung Biasa

    Japanese : ハナドリ (hana-dori)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 花鳥

    Size : 7–9 cm; Male 4–8 g, Female 5.5–6.1 g

    

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Dicaeum ignipectus ignipectus (Blyth, 1843)
  – Himalayas from Kashmir E to NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam S to Mizo Hills), SE Bangladesh, and S & SE China (S Shaanxi and Henan S to SE Xizang, Yunnan, Hainan, Guangdong and Fujian) S to Myanmar, N Thailand, Laos, Vietnam (except C Annam and Cochinchina) and E Cambodia (Phumi Dak area).
• Dicaeum ignipectus formosum (Ogilvie-Grant, 1912)
  – Taiwan.
• Dicaeum ignipectus dolichorhynchum (Deignan, 1938)
  – Malay Peninsula.

Dicaeum ignipectus ssp. dolichorhynchum
Date : 31 March 2019

Location : Fraser's Hill, Mukim Tras, Daerah Raub, Pahang