Colorfull , or color-sowing ( lat. Dicaeidae ) is a family of songbirds from the passerine order. Includes 44 species belonging to two genera.
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Celum beetles are found mainly in New Guinea and the Philippines . The rest of the range stretches from India through China to the southern borders of Australasia . They usually live in small groups in the trees or in the bushes. Floral eaters do not migrate, but remain faithful to their place of birth.
Tsvetoevye - birds of small sizes with short legs and tails. The plumage is not bright colors, both sexes are almost the same. In some species, males are distinguished by a brighter plumage. On short beaks, there are protrusions like small teeth that help the beetle eat sticky fruit . Their tongue is rolled into a tube, which facilitates the extraction of nectar . In addition to it, the color eaters feed on berries and fruits, do not disdain also insects and spiders . Prefer the yellow berries of the plant Loranthus longiflorus from the family of the Belnaceae and are an important factor in the spread of its seeds.
The nests of the beetle eater are round, suspended from the branches of the trees and the entrance to them is on the side. As the building material used various stalks, as well as cobwebs . In laying from two to four eggs .
Classification
- Genus Flowerbirds ( Dicaeum ) [1]
- Bronze flower beetle ( Dicaeum aeneum )
- Spotted chestnut ( Dicaeum aeruginosum )
- Thick-billed flower beetle ( Dicaeum agile )
- Bearded Flowerbird ( Dicaeum annae )
- Gold capping eater ( Dicaeum anthonyi )
- Celebes tsvetoyed ( Dicaeum aureolimbatum )
- Philippine Colorbird ( Dicaeum australe )
- Bicolor Floral Beetle ( Dicaeum bicolor )
- Black-faced flower beetle ( Dicaeum celebicum )
- Yellow-backed Flowerbird ( Dicaeum chrysorrheum )
- Monochromatic Colorbird ( Dicaeum concolor )
- Fire spinal flower ( Dicaeum cruentatum )
- Red-billed flower beetle ( Dicaeum erythrorhynchos )
- Buruan Colorbird ( Dicaeum erythrothorax )
- Brown Spined Flower ( Dicaeum everetti )
- Beautiful color beetle ( Dicaeum eximium )
- Dicaum geelvinkianum
- Dicaeum haematostictum
- Swallow color flower ( Dicaeum hirundinaceum )
- White-bellied flower beetle ( Dicaeum hypoleucum )
- Rusty-Tailfly ( Dicaeum igniferum )
- Flamebeard ( Dicaeum ignipectus )
- Timor tsvetoed ( Dicaeum maugei )
- Yellow-bellied flower beetle ( Dicaeum melanoxanthum )
- Alohrudy tsvetoed ( Dicaeum monticolum )
- Wildflower ( Dicaeum nehrkorni )
- Olive Cappuccino ( Dicaeum nigrilore )
- Dicaeum nitidum
- Papuan flower beetle ( Dicaeum pectorale )
- Gray-breasted flower beetle ( Dicaeum proprium )
- Flowerbird ( Dicaeum pygmaeum )
- Four-color flower beetle ( Dicaeum quadricolor )
- Mindor flowerbird ( Dicaeum retrocinctum )
- Purple Flower Beetle ( Dicaeum sanguinolentum )
- Orange- bellied flower beetle ( Dicaeum trigonostigma )
- Flower Tristram ( Dicaeum tristrami )
- Firehead color beetle ( Dicaeum trochileum )
- White-necked flower beetle ( Dicaeum vincens )
- Moluccan flower eater ( Dicaeum vulneratum )
- Genus Tsvetososa ( Prionochilus )
- Gold- breasted flowers ( Prionochilus maculatus )
- Green-backed sprout ( Prionochilus olivaceus )
- Red-breasted flower sucker ( Prionochilus percussus )
- Palavan flower carrier ( Prionochilus plateni )
- Ruby- breast flower ( Prionochilus thoracicus )
- Yellow lung flowers ( Prionochilus xanthopygius )
Notes
- ↑ Russian names according to the book of Boehme R. L. , Flint V. Ye. Pyatiazychny dictionary of animal names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Under total. ed. Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. LANGUAGE, RUSSO, 1994. pp. 372-374. - 2030 copies - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
See also
- Spectacled Color Sucker