Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)
Blood-breasted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum sanguinolentum) - HBW 13, p. 388
French:
Dicée sanglant
German: Purpurmistelfresser
Spanish:
Picaflores Sangrante
Other common names: Javan Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
Taxonomy: Dicaeum
sanguinolentum Temminck, 1829, west Java.
Forms
a superspecies with D. ignipectus, D. monticolum, D.
celebicum and D. hirundinaceum; all sometimes treated as
conspecific. Particularly close to some forms of D. ignipectus
and D. celebicum. Proposed race ablutum, described from
Tamansari (Banjoewangi), in E Java, subsumed within nominate. Four
subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- sanguinolentum Temminck, 1829 - S Sumatra (Lampung, two records), Java and Bali.
- wilhelminae Büttikofer, 1892 - Sumba, in Lesser Sundas.
- rhodopygiale Rensch, 1928 - Flores.
- hanieli Hellmayr, 1912 - Timor.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Female Locality Sumba, Lesser Sundas (ssp wilhelminae)
mark sutton 10 June 2009 2 years ago 18 sec 3 -
Male Locality Sumba, Lesser Sundas (ssp wilhelminae)
mark sutton 10 June 2009 2 years ago 7 sec 2.7 -
A male perching on a twig and then flying away. Locality Bedugul, Bali (Indonesia) (ssp sanguinolentum)
Nick Talbot 21 April 2011 35 weeks ago 7 sec 2.5
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A perched bird.
Locality Sumba, Lesser Sundas (ssp wilhelminae)
mehdhalaouate 9 April 2008 2 years ago 3.3 -
the cherry tree branch, between the farm fields
Locality Malang, East Java Province, Java (Indonesia)
R.Tri Prayudhi 25 April 2009 1 year ago 2.7 -
A male perching on a twig.
Locality Bedugul, Bali (Indonesia) (ssp sanguinolentum)
Nick Talbot 21 April 2011 39 weeks ago 2.5
- No sound recordings available yet
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