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Sumba Flowerpecker
Dicaeum wilhelminae Büttikofer, 1892
Dicaeidae — Flowerpeckers
Sumba Flowerpecker, Dicaeum wilhelminae, is a passerine in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae and occurs on Sumba in the Lesser Sundas, within Australasia. It was described by Büttikofer in 1892. The bird lives in subtropical or tropical moist forest. It was once treated as part of the blood-breasted flowerpecker, now the Javan flowerpecker, but is recognised as a separate species on the basis of plumage and vocal differences. No subspecies are recognised.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicaeidae — Flowerpeckers
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Sumba (c Lesser Sundas)
