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Dicaeum
''Dicaeum'' is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia. Within the family Dicaeidae the genus ''Dicaeum'' is sister to a clade containing the genera '' Prionochilus'' and '' Pachyglossa''. Its members are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, 10 to 18 cm in length, with short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken. 2-4 eggs are laid, typically in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree. Taxonomy The genus ''Dicaeum'' was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. The name is from the Ancient Greek ''dikaion''. Cuvier claimed that this was a word for a very small Indian bird mentioned by the Roman author Claudius Aelianus but the word probably referred instead to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dicaeum Aureolimbatum Aureolimbatum
''Dicaeum'' is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia. Within the family Dicaeidae the genus ''Dicaeum'' is sister group, sister to a clade containing the genera ''Prionochilus'' and ''Pachyglossa''. Its members are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, 10 to 18 cm in length, with short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken. 2-4 eggs are laid, typically in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree. Taxonomy The genus ''Dicaeum'' was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. The name is from the Ancient Greek ''dikaion''. Cuvier claimed that this was a word for a very small Indian bird mentioned by the Roman author Claudius Aelianus but the word probably referred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thick-billed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum Agile) On Helicteres Isora W2 IMG 1379
The thick-billed flowerpecker (''Pachyglossa agilis'') is a tiny bird in the flowerpecker group. They feed predominantly on fruits and are active birds that are mainly seen in the tops of trees in forests. It is a resident bird with a wide distribution across tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia and Timor with several populations recognized as subspecies some of which are sometimes treated as full species. This species was formerly placed in the genus ''Dicaeum. Taxonomy The thick-billed flowerpecker was formally described in 1833 by the English ornithologist Samuel Tickell based on a specimen collected in the Barabhum and Dhalbhum forests of the state of Jharkhand in eastern India. He placed the new species with the finches in the genus '' Fringilla'' and coined the binomial name ''Fringilla agilis''. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "nimble" or "active". The thick-billed flowerpecker was formerly placed in the genus ''Dicaeum'' but when molecular phylogen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
