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| Visayan Flowerpecker Dicaeum haematostictum |
| Common Names: Red-Keeled Flowerpecker
(visayan race), Pipit (Tagalog); Panagoto (Visayas)
Discoverer: 1Sharpe,1876 Category: CRITICAL Status: ENDEMIC Habitat/Distribution: Found in Negros, Panay and Guimaras. Forest and forest edge below 1000m Habitat / Behavior: L 4"; Prefers the canopies of forests, forest edge, second growth, and shrubs in open country in fruiting and flowering trees; singly or in groups, and in mixed flocks usually below 1000m. Pendulous woven nest with side entrance hangs in the outer branches of trees in the canopy. Breeding recorded in March to August.
Call snappy, somewhat metallic seeep seeep seeep followed by a zit zit
zit given continuously while foraging, the seep long and forced (THF &
RSK: R. Kennedy and T. Fisher field notes) Photograph Information: Courtesy of the Oxford University Press. Drawing done by Melinda Johns Bitting taken from "A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines" by Dr. Robert Kennedy et al.[right] |
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