Mistletoebird
Dicaeum hirundinaceum
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,345
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum), also known as the mistletoe flowerpecker, is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia (though absent from Tasmania and the driest desert areas) and also to the eastern Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Arafura Sea between Australia and New Guinea. The mistletoebird eats mainly the berries of the parasitic mistletoe and is a vector for the spread of the mistletoe's seeds through its digestive system.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mistletoebird”.