How big is a Plain Flowerpecker?

The Plain Flowerpecker is a tiny sized bird weighing about 6 g.

Where can you see a Plain Flowerpecker?

The Plain Flowerpecker occurs in 16 countries, including Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia and China.

What birds look similar to a Plain Flowerpecker?

The Plain Flowerpecker is most easily confused with the Red-keeled Flowerpecker, the Orange-bellied Flowerpecker and the Andaman Flowerpecker.

Plain Flowerpecker

Dicaeum minullum

Flowerpeckers · Passeriformes · Uncommon

The Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum) is a uncommon flowerpecker found in 16 countries, weighing about 6 g. The plain flowerpecker is a bird in the family Dicaeidae.

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Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 1 — Photo: Weiting Liu · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 2 — Photo: Dan Vickers · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 3 — Photo: Mitch Van Dyke · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 4 — Photo: Mitch Van Dyke · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 5 — Photo: Mitch Van Dyke · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Brodie Cass Talbott, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Paulmathi Vinod, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Dan Vickers, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Rejoice Gassah, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Octavianti Shanna, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

About the Plain Flowerpecker

The plain flowerpecker is a bird in the family Dicaeidae. The species was described and given its binomial name by Robert Swinhoe in 1870. It is found in the central Himalayas, through western Indonesia to Taiwan.

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How to identify it

These birds are tiny (9 cm long) and there is no marked difference between the males and females. The subspecies found in northeastern India, extending into Myanmar, Laos and southern China is called olivaceum by earlier authors but is treated by Pamela C. Rasmussen as a separate species Dicaeum minullum (which includes the population minullum from Hainan Island and is now termed as the plain flowerpecker in the more restricted sense).

Where it lives

Taiwan India Thailand Malaysia China Cambodia Hong Kong SAR China Nepal Vietnam Indonesia Bhutan Laos Myanmar (Burma) Brunei Bangladesh

Recorded as a rare visitor in Macao SAR China.

When to see it

Best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November, December, with peak activity in April. It is a resident species across most of its range.

Easily confused with

Quick questions

How do you identify a Plain Flowerpecker?: These birds are tiny (9 cm long) and there is no marked difference between the males and females. Full identification notes are on this page.
How big is a Plain Flowerpecker?: The Plain Flowerpecker is a tiny sized bird weighing about 6 g.
Where can you see a Plain Flowerpecker?: The Plain Flowerpecker occurs in 16 countries, including Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia and China.
What birds look similar to a Plain Flowerpecker?: The Plain Flowerpecker is most easily confused with the Red-keeled Flowerpecker, the Orange-bellied Flowerpecker and the Andaman Flowerpecker.

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