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Post by Ramon Quisumbing on Jan 2, 2012 12:32:37 GMT
I took these documentary shots of a pair of tiny Flowerpeckers this afternoon in a mistletoe on a tree in front of the BK Mountain Lodge. They did not hop around or move much. ID please.
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Post by Neon Rosell II on Jan 4, 2012 5:19:26 GMT
Drooling! wish I could visit BK valley purely for birding next time. Looks like all species of flowerpecker is having a field day there, Ramon! From the slender bill and eye ring this is the Buzzing Flowerpecker ( Dicaeum hypoleucum) Here's a reference photo taken at Quezon National Park in Pagbilao last 2008.
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Post by Ramon Quisumbing on Jan 4, 2012 7:13:29 GMT
Great, thanks for the ID, Neon. It's so hard for me to distinguish between the Buzzing Flowerpecker and the Bicolored FP (Female) and the Pygmy FP (female).
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Post by des on Jan 4, 2012 9:02:49 GMT
As Neon says. Go through plenty of photos of Pygmy, Bicolored and Buzzing and look at the bill shapes and colours, and head patterns such as eyebrows, throats and eye-rings.
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Post by Ramon Quisumbing on Jan 4, 2012 9:12:24 GMT
Thanks, Des.
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