Family Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)
Least Concern
Black-sided Flowerpecker (Dicaeum monticolum)
Taxonomy
French: Dicée de Bornéo German: Borneomistelfresser Spanish: Picaflores de Borneo
Taxonomy:
Dicæum monticolum
Sharpe
, 1887,Mount Kinabalu, northern Borneo
.Distribution:
Highlands of N, W, C & SE Borneo.
Descriptive notes
8 cm. Male has top of head and upperparts glossy bluish-black, face black, malar region and side of neck sooty black; central chin white, throat and breast scarlet, bordered... read more
Voice
Sharp, piercing, metallic “zit”, a repeated “tit-tit”; also “tsweet-... read more
Habitat
Hill dipterocarp forest, montane forest and heath forest, also scrub; at 460–2540 m.... read more
Food and feeding
Fruits, particularly of mistletoes (Loranthaceae), seeds, probably also pollen and nectar of mistletoes; also aphids (Aphidoidea), flies (... read more
Breeding
Males with enlarged testes in Dec in N Borneo (Sabah) and young observed in Nov–Feb in NW (Bario, in Sarawak). Nest a suspended purse... read more
Movements
None recorded.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Restrictedrange species: present in Bornean Mountains EBA. Local and uncommon. Very patchily distributed; occurs in highlands in Sarawak (Mt... read more
Proposed race zita (from Mt Dulit, in Sarawak) considered undiagnosable. Monotypic.