Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) - HBW 13

Brown-backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum everetti)

French: Dicée d’Everett German: Braunrücken-Mistelfresser Spanish: Picaflores Dorsipardo
Other common names: Everett’s Flowerpecker

Taxonomy: Prionochilus everetti Sharpe, 1877, Bintulu, Sarawak, western Borneo.
Race bungurense possibly belongs in D. agile. Described race sordidum, from Rawang, in C Selangor (W Peninsular Malaysia), is considered inseparable from nominate and therefore synonymized with it. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • everetti (Sharpe, 1877) - Peninsular Malaysia (Selangor), Riau Archipelago (Bintan I) and N & W Borneo.
  • bungurense (Chasen, 1935) - Bunguran, in N Natuna Is.

  • Near Threatened
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