Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a broad red band from the crown to the uppertail-coverts
2. Male has a navy-blue face, wings and tail
3. Underparts creamy white; eyes and legs black
4. Bill dark gray and arched

Male, female and young

Female mostly olive, with a black tail and scarlet rump and uppertail-coverts; juvenile resembles the female but has an orange bill and lacks bright red on the rump.

Where and when it's recorded

Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker has been recorded at 579 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 14 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Singapore Botanic GardensSingapore1,547 records
2. Sungei Buloh Wetland ReserveSingapore1,130 records
3. Benjakiti ParkThailand1,097 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ThailandSingaporeChinaCambodiaMalaysiaIndiaVietnamBangladesh

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 scarlet-backed flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum) is a species of passerine bird in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae. It is found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and occasionally gardens in a number of countries throughout South and East Asia.

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