Flame-breasted flowerpecker

Flame-breasted flowerpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species: D. erythrothorax
Binomial name
Dicaeum erythrothorax
Lesson, 1828

The flame-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrothorax) is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is endemic to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is restricted to Buru.

The Halmahera flowerpecker was until recently considered a subspecies.

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