The flowerpeckers are a family, Dicaeidae, of passerine birds. The family comprises three genera, Dicaeum, Prionochilus and Pachyglossa, with 56 species in total. The family has sometimes been include
Dicaeum trigonostigma 1
Pale-billed flowerpecker feeding on Muntingia calabura
The mistletoebird, also known as the mistletoe flowerpecker, is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia and also to the eastern Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Arafura Sea between Aus
Flowerpecker
…south to Australia. The family has a wide range occupying a wide range of environments from sea level to montane habitats. Some species, such as the mistletoebird of Australia, are recorded as being highly nomadic over parts of their range. There is little variation in structure between species in the family…
Mistletoebird Round Hill Nature Reserve
Mistletoe in Eucalyptus woodland. Central New South Wales.
Deposited mistletoe seed. Sticky, to facilitate propagation in the host tree.
Female mistletoebird feeding young in a nest in southern Western Australia.