Blue-cheeked flowerpecker

Blue-cheeked flowerpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species: D. maugei
Binomial name
Dicaeum maugei
Lesson, 1830

The blue-cheeked flowerpecker or red-chested flowerpecker (Dicaeum maugei) is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is found on the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia and East Timor. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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