Female © Peter Candido
Male © Mei-Hua Tsou
Male © Catherine McFadden

Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker Dicaeum anthonyi

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Identification

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A tiny bird of mossy montane forest and edge on Luzon. Male has glossy black upperparts, pale underparts (whiter on the throat), and the namesake yellow crown stripe. Female has olive upperparts. Similar to Bicolored Flowerpecker, but male Yellow-crowned has a bright crown patch and female has a more yellowish belly. Voice includes a high-pitched descending whistle and a sharp “tsik!” Treated by some taxonomies as subspecies of Flame-crowned Flowerpecker, which is endemic to Mindanao.

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