Fire-breasted Flowerpecker

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has bright blue-black upperparts
2. Male has pale rufous underparts with a bright patch on the breast
3. Male has a short black streak below the breast patch
4. Bill short and dark

Male, female and young

Female duller, with dark olive upperparts and pale rufous underparts.

Voice

A grating call like scissors snipping, and a short “tsit”.

Where and when it's recorded

Fire-breasted Flowerpecker has been recorded at 453 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 12 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Nantou – Meifeng Highland Experimental Farm of NTUTaiwan (China)1,292 records
2. Bukit FraserMalaysia927 records
3. Tai Po Kau Nature ReserveHong Kong (China)619 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaThailandMalaysiaNepalIndiaVietnamPhilippinesBhutan

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Like other flowerpeckers, this tiny bird feeds on fruits and plays an important role in the dispersal of fruiting plants. Unlike many other species in the genus, this species has marked sexual dimorphism with the male having contrasting upper and lower parts with a distinctive bright orange breast patch.

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