Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Dicaeidae > Dicaeum > Dicaeum vincensDicaeum vincens (Legge's Flowerpecker)The Legge's flowerpecker or white-throated flowerpecker (Dicaeum vincens) is a small passerine bird. It is an endemic resident breeder in Sri Lanka. It is named after the Australian ornithologist William Vincent Legge. The Legge's flowerpecker is a common resident breeding bird of forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens. Two eggs are laid in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree. The male Legge's flowerpecker has blue-black upperparts, a white throat and upper breast, and yellow lower breast and belly. The female is duller, with olive-brown upperparts. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.01193 EDGE Score: 2.77408 |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore | Diet - Fruit [1] | 60 % | Diet - Invertibrates [1] | 20 % | Diet - Nectar [1] | 20 % | Forages - Canopy [1] | 40 % | Forages - Mid-High [1] | 40 % | Forages - Understory [1] | 20 % | | Clutch Size [2] | 2 |
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Land Use |
Sri Lanka lowland rain forests |
Sri Lanka |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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