Female © Kevin Pearce
Female © Kevin Pearce
Male © Raymond Dan
Female © Desmond Allen
+ 3
Male © Ramon Quisumbing
Male © Forest Botial-Jarvis

Orange-tufted Spiderhunter Arachnothera flammifera

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Identification

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A fairly small bird of lowland and foothill forest understory and edge with a very long curved bill. Has a preference for banana plants. Olive-green above, whitish to pale gray from the throat to the upper belly, and yellow on the lower belly and under the base of the tail. Note the small orange tufts on the sides. Voice includes a repeated “sweet-sweet-sweet!” or dry “tyup!”

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