DICAEIDAE
SCARLET-BACKED FLOWERPECKER



Location : Pulau Pinang
Date : ‎21 ‎October ‎2020

8.5 cm Male cruentatum: Red above, blackish head-/breast-sides, blue-blackish wings.Female: Bright red rump and uppertailcoverts, pale below. Juvenile: Mostly red-pink- based lower mandible, uniform above with orange-tinged uppertail-coverts, more uniform greyish throat/breast. VOICE Song is thin tissit tissit tissit... Hard metallic tip and thin metallic tizz and tsi notes. HABITAT Open forests, secondary growth, parks, gardens etc.; up to 1,220 m. RANGE Co R throughout