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

    Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 9,050,000km²
    Migratory Status : Not a Migrant
    Breeding Endemic : No

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

    

    Subspecies (3) and Distribution

    EBIRD GROUP (POLYTYPIC)

    Fire-breasted Flowerpecker (Fire-breasted) Dicaeum ignipectus ignipectus/dolichorhynchum

• Dicaeum ignipectus ignipectus (Blyth, 1843)
  – The most widespread subspecies. Occurs widely through the Himalayas from Kashmir, east to northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam south to the Mizo Hills) and southeastern Bangladesh. In China, occurs in southern Shaanxi to southeastern Tibet, Yunnan, Hainan, Guangdong, and Fujian; occurs south to Myanmar, northern Thailand, Laos, most of Vietnam (except Cochinchina), and eastern Cambodia.
  
• Dicaeum ignipectus dolichorhynchum (Deignan, 1938)
  – Endemic to the Malay Peninsula.

    EBIRD GROUP (POLYTYPIC)

    Fire-breasted Flowerpecker (Taiwan) Dicaeum ignipectus formosum

• Dicaeum ignipectus formosum (Ogilvie-Grant, 1912)
  – Endemic to Taiwan.

Distribution Map

Dicaeum ignipectus ssp. dolichorhynchum
Date : 31 March 2019

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