Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
Dicaeum ignipectus(Blyth, E, 1843)
English (US) Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
The Fire-breasted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Dicaeidae (Flowerpeckers) in the order Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Dicaeum ignipectus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1843)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 3 subspecies for this species.
- Dicaeum ignipectus ignipectus
- Dicaeum ignipectus dolichorhynchum
- Dicaeum ignipectus formosum
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Myzanthe ignipectus
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1843)
- Type locality
- Nepal and Bhutan.
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 12, pt.2, no.143 p.983
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Grey-sided Flowerpecker
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Javan Flowerpecker
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