Salmon-beak mistletoe

Salmon-beak mistletoe
	Salmon-beak mistletoe
Systematics
Order :	Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination :	Songbirds (passeri)
Superfamily :	Passeroidea
Family :	Mistletoe eater (Dicaeidae)
Genre :	Dicaeum
Type :	Salmon-beak mistletoe
Scientific name
	Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
	( Latham , 1790)

with a Muntingia calabura fruit

The salmon-beak mistletoe ( Dicaeum erythrorhynchos ), also known as the pale-beak mistletoe , is a species of bird from the mistletoe- eater family (Dicaeidae).

The Latin species addition comes from ancient Greek ἐρυθρός erythros , German 'red' and ancient Greek ῥύγχος rhynchos , German 'beak' .

Distribution map

The bird is found in Southeast Asia , Bangladesh , India , Myanmar , Nepal and Sri Lanka .

The distribution area includes moist habitats with deciduous forest , groves and bushes, plantations and vegetable gardens , preferably fig trees below 300 m height.

features

The species is 8 cm tall and weighs between 4 and 8 g. A small inconspicuous olive-brown feathered bird with a grayish white underside, with a short, slender, clearly downwardly curved flesh-colored, characteristic beak. The upper side is monochrome grayish-brown or olive-brown, the wings are dark brown. The bird resembles a female nectar bird . The sexes do not differ. The Indian subspecies is paler than that from Sri Lanka.

Geographic variation

The following subspecies are recognized:

D. e. erythrorhynchos ( Latham , 1790), nominate form - India, southern Nepal, extreme western Bhutan , Bangladesh, and Myanmar
D. e. ceylonense BABAULT , 1920 - Sri Lanka

voice

The call of the male is described as a high, repeated "pit" and constant sharp "chick-chick-chick" in flight.

Way of life

The diet consists mainly of the fruits of mistletoe , as well as nectar , spiders and small insects . Likes to spend time alone or in pairs in mango gardens, jumping around restlessly, swallowing ripe fruit whole, seeds being excreted on another branch or tree.

The breeding season is mainly February to June, August to September in southern India. The nest is a hanging bag with a side entrance hole similar to the nest of a nectar bird, hangs on branches at a height of 3-15 m. Usually two white eggs are laid. Nest building and feeding is done by both parent birds.

Hazardous situation

The stock is not considered to be at risk ( least concern ).

literature

J. Latham: Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiae, complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates. Vol. 1, p. 299 as Certhia erythrorhynchos . Leigh et Sotheby, London 1790.
PC Rasmussen and JC Anderton: Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. 2005, Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions, pp. 544-545, ISBN 84-87334-67-9

Web links

Commons : Salmon-billed mistletoe - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Videos, photos and sound recordings for Dicaeum erythrorhynchos in the Internet Bird Collection

Oiseaux.net

Individual evidence

↑ Mistelfresser , in Avibase - The World Bird Database
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Handbook of the Birds of the World
^ R. Grimmett, T. Inskipp: Birds of Northern India. Helm Field Guides, 2017, ISBN 978-0-7136-5167-6
^ ^A ^b ^c S. Ali: The Book of Indian Birds. Bombay Natural History Society, Oxford university Press, 13th ed. 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-566523-9
^ IOC World Bird List Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds
↑ Redlist

[avibase-1] Mistelfresser , in Avibase - The World Bird Database

[HBW-2] Handbook of the Birds of the World

[BNI-3] R. Grimmett, T. Inskipp: Birds of Northern India. Helm Field Guides, 2017, ISBN 978-0-7136-5167-6

[Ali-4] A ^b ^c S. Ali: The Book of Indian Birds. Bombay Natural History Society, Oxford university Press, 13th ed. 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-566523-9

[5] IOC World Bird List Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds

[6] Redlist