Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) - HBW 13
Thick-billed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum agile)
French: Dicée à bec épais
German: Dickschnabel-Mistelfresser
Spanish: Picaflores Picogrueso
Other common names: Streaky-breasted Flowerpecker; Ceylon Thick-billed Flowerpecker (zeylonicum); Striped/Fairy Flowerpecker (Philippine races)
Taxonomy: Fringilla Agilis Tickell, 1833, Borabhúm and Dolbhúm, Bengal, east India.
Shares tongue morphology with D. aureolimbatum, D. bicolor and D. celebicum. Poorly known N Natuna race bungurense of D. everetti (known only from the type specimen) possibly belongs with present species. Geographical variation complex, involving bill shape and various plumage characters (particularly colour of dorsal surface, pale spots on rectrices and ventral streaking), and with mosaic pattern of distribution among races. Philippine races (striatissimum, affine and aeruginosum) sometimes considered to represent a separate s.. View all taxonomy...
Shares tongue morphology with D. aureolimbatum, D. bicolor and D. celebicum. Poorly known N Natuna race bungurense of D. everetti (known only from the type specimen) possibly belongs with present species. Geographical variation complex, involving bill shape and various plumage characters (particularly colour of dorsal surface, pale spots on rectrices and ventral streaking), and with mosaic pattern of distribution among races. Philippine races (striatissimum, affine and aeruginosum) sometimes considered to represent a separate species; other races fall into two further groups, one in W (nominate and zeylonicum) and the other from NE India and SE Asia S to Sundas (remaining races), these groups possibly representing two additional species; moreover, finschi is perhaps sufficiently distinctive to be considered a separate species. Other proposed races are deignani (described from Kohima, in Assam) and separabile (from Dalat, in C Vietnam), both synonymized with pallescens, and remotum (from Negri Sembilan, in Peninsular Malaysia), considered indistinguishable from modestum. Eleven subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- agile (Tickell, 1833) - NE Pakistan E to W Bangladesh and S through peninsular India.
- zeylonicum (Whistler, 1944) - Sri Lanka.
- pallescens (Riley, 1935) - NE India (S Assam, Meghalaya), E Bangladesh, and Myanmar (except N, W & SW), Thailand (except S & E), Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (except Tonkin); probably also S China (S Yunnan).
- agile (Tickell, 1833) - NE Pakistan E to W Bangladesh and S through peninsular India.
- zeylonicum (Whistler, 1944) - Sri Lanka.
- pallescens (Riley, 1935) - NE India (S Assam, Meghalaya), E Bangladesh, and Myanmar (except N, W & SW), Thailand (except S & E), Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (except Tonkin); probably also S China (S Yunnan).
- modestum (Hume, 1875) - S peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
- atjehense Delacour, 1946 - NE & S Sumatra.
- finschi M. Bartels, 1914 - W Java.
- tinctum (Mayr, 1944) - Lesser Sundas (Sumba, Flores and Alor).
- obsoletum (S. Müller, 1843) - Timor.
- striatissimum Parkes, 1962 - Luzon, Lubang, Romblon, Sibuyan and Catanduanes (N Philippines).
- affine (J. T. Zimmer, 1918) - Palawan (W Philippines).
- aeruginosum (Bourns & Worcester, 1894) - Mindoro, Negros, Cebu and Mindanao (S Philippines).
- Least Concern
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A bird moving in a tree. Philippines (ssp aeruginosum)
Desmond Allen 1 year ago 14 sec 1.5
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A short-thick bill, faint brown streaking on the breast & flanks and the orange-red eye are all diagnostic features on this othe Sigiriya, Central Province, Sri Lanka (ssp zeylonicum)
Steve Garvie 8 August 2009 12 weeks ago 3
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