Mistletoebird
Dicaeum hirundinaceum
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The mistletoebird, also known as the mistletoe flowerpecker, is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia 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.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicaeidae
- Genus
- Dicaeum