White-throated Flowerpecker

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iWhite-throated Flowerpecker
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species: D. vincens
Binomial name
Dicaeum vincens
(Sclater, 1872)

The White-throated Flowerpecker or Legge's Flowerpecker (Dicaeum vincens) is a small passerine bird. It is a endemic resident breeder in Sri Lanka.

The White-throated Flowerpecker is a common resident breeding bird of forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens. Two eggs are laid in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.

This is a very small, stout flowerpecker, 10cm in length, with a short tail, short thick curved bill and tubular tongue. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in its diet, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken.

The male White-throated Flowerpecker has blue-black upperparts, a white throat and upper breast, and yellow lower breast and belly. The female is duller, with olive-brown upperparts.

[edit] References

  • BirdLife International (2004). Dicaeum vincens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
  • Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6
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