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Dicaeidae

  • Dicaeidae

    The flowerpeckers, once included in an enlarged sunbird family Nectariniidae, are a family, Dicaeidae, of passerine birds.

    Dicaeidae, Dicaeum: Greek dikaion supposedly an Indian bird mentioned by Aelianus.

  • 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.


    The name Dicaeum is from the Ancient Greek dikaion. Cuvier claimed that this was a word for a very small Indian bird.

    1/ Plain flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum)
    Chim sâu bình nguyên

    2/ Fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus)
    Chim sâu ngực đỏ

    3/ Scarlet-Backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum)
    Chim sâu lưng đỏ

    4/ Thick-billed flowerpecker (Dicaeum agile) 
    Chim sâu mỏ lớn

    5/ Yellow-vented flowerpecker (Dicaeum chrysorrheum)
    Chim sâu bụng vạch

    6/ Yellow-bellied flowerpecker (Dicaeum melanozanthum)
    Chim sâu bụng vàng

    7/ Orange-bellied flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma) 
    Chim sâu ngực xám

    8/ Nilgiri flowerpecker (Dicaeum concolor)
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  • Prionochilus

    Prionochilus is one of two genera flowerpecker that make up the family Dicaeidae.

    1/ Scarlet-breasted flowerpecker (Prionochilus thoracicus)
    Chim sâu đầu đen


    Prionochilus Greek prion saw; kheilos lip.

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