Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum ranges from Himalayan foothills of India and Nepal to Greater Sundas. Race chrysochlore in Yunnan (Ruili, Xishuangbanna). HABITAT Moist broadleaved forests in lowlands, in Yunnan to 1000 m (3,280 ft.). Fond of mistletoe berries; also eats figs, nectar, and insects. ID & COMPARISON More striking than nondescript Thick-billed Flowerpecker D. agile. Has diagnostic strong black markings (weaker on lower belly) on white underparts and bright yellow undertail coverts. White throat and malar divided by strongly dark lateral throat stripe. Yellowish-green above, with white loral stripe. Flight feathers and tail blackish. BARE PARTS Bill black, thin, slightly decurved. Feet black. Iris orange. VOICE Sharp, thin calls, sometimes delivered repeatedly from perches. Often nervously vocal during flights in canopy. — Craig Brelsford
THE FLOWERPECKERS OF CHINA
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Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile
Yellow-vented Flowerpecker D. chrysorrheum
Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker D. melanozanthum
Plain Flowerpecker D. minullum
Fire-breasted Flowerpecker D. ignipectus
Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker D. cruentatum
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Daniel Bengtsson served as chief ornithological consultant for Craig Brelsford’s Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of China, from which this species description is drawn.
