Red-chested Flowerpecker

Dicaeum maugei

Description

This species is small in stature, characterized by a black woodpecker with a red rump and a red throat patch with black stripes. Upperparts is black, underparts is white.

Population Size

-

Life Span

-

WEIGHT​

-

LENGTH

7 cm

Ar

Arboreal

Di

Diurnal

Om

Omnivore

Classification

KINGDOM

:

Animalia

PHYLUM

:

Chordata

CLASS

:

Aves

ORDER

:

Passeriformes

FAMILY

:

Dicaeidae

GENUS

:

Dicaeum

SPECIES

:

Dicaeum maugei

Distribution

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist mountain forest.

Geography

Continent : Asia

Country : limited to Lesser Sunda and Selayer Island. recently discovered on the island of Nusa Penida Bali.

Habits and Lifestyle

This species is also the same as other woodpeckers that fly between small trees.

Lifestyle

Arboreal

Biome

Lowland forest and mountain forest

Climate Zone

Tropical and subtropical

Diet and Nutrition

Its main food is small fruits, and insects.

Diet : Omnivorous

PHOTO GALLERY

Reference

  1. MacKinnon, J. 1991 . Fields Guide to the Birds Of Java and Bali. Gadjah Mada University Press. Yogyakarta.