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Plain Flowerpecker

Dicaeum minullum

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedOmnivoreForestDomed nestTiny · 6 g
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 1
Photo: Weiting Liu · CC BY 4.0
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 2
Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 3
Photo: Mitch Van Dyke · CC BY 4.0
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 4
Photo: Mitch Van Dyke · CC BY 4.0
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 5
Photo: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 6
Photo: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 7
Photo: Mitch Van Dyke · CC BY 4.0
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 8
Photo: (c) Brodie Cass Talbott, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 9
Photo: (c) Paulmathi Vinod, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Plain Flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum), photo 10
Photo: (c) Dan Vickers, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

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).

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When to see the Plain Flowerpecker

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Plain Flowerpecker

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

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.

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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Easily confused with

Red-keeled Flowerpecker (Dicaeum australe) Red-keeled FlowerpeckerDicaeum australeThe red-keeled flowerpecker or red-striped flowerpecker is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma) Orange-bellied FlowerpeckerDicaeum trigonostigmaMale is distinctive, and shows slaty-blue upperparts (crown/nape/wings/tail) except for a large triangular orange patch on the mantle. Andaman Flowerpecker (Dicaeum virescens) Andaman FlowerpeckerDicaeum virescensThe Andaman flowerpecker is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae.

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