Birds of India - Flowerpeckers

Flowerpeckers

Order: Passeriformes. Family: Dicaeidae

The flowerpeckers are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, with short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues. There are 44 species worldwide and 10 species which occur in India.

  • Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile
  • Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum
  • Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker Dicaeum melanoxanthum
  • Orange-bellied Flowerpecker Dicaeum trigonostigma
  • Pale-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
  • Nilgiri Flowerpecker Dicaeum concolor
  • Andaman Flowerpecker Dicaeum virescens
  • Plain Flowerpecker Dicaeum minullum
  • Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus
  • Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum

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