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Flame-crowned Flowerpecker (Dicaeum kampalili)

Flame-crowned Flowerpecker
Photo: Forest Jarvis via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Flame-crowned Flowerpecker

The flame-crowned flowerpecker (Dicaeum kampalili) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae. It is endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. The yellow-crowned flowerpecker (Dicaeum anthonyi), which is endemic to Luzon, was formerly considered conspecific. Exhibits sexual dimorphism in which males have the eponymous flame orange crown and vent while females are much more dull and have uniform olive color and does not the black upperparts This species was formerly conspecific with the Yellow-crowned flowerpecker but is now recognized as distinct species. It differs mostly in the males with its orange crown, gray throat, grayish white belly and scarlet undertail and smaller size. Two subspecies are recognized: D. k. kampalili – Found on Mindanao except Western area

Source: Flame-crowned flowerpecker on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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Listed as recorded in Philippines in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

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