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Red-keeled Flowerpecker

Dicaeum australe

Description:

Red-keeled Flowerpecker, one of the 12 endemic flowerpeckers found in the Philippines. The call is a metallic seep seep seep and ranges from almost all the major islands in the Philippines except Palawan and Mindoro.

Habitat:

It prefers the canopy of forests and forest edge and can be seen feeding on flowering and fruiting trees.

Notes:

can you visually discern intelligence the way this flowerpecker squeezes the fruit? yes they instinctually (as we prefer to say it rather than intellectually) recognized the end of the pedicel as the only egress point of the sap whenever this fruit be clutch up by beaks

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6 Comments

KdonGalay
KdonGalay 11 years ago

i totally agree with you Maria

The MnMs
The MnMs 11 years ago

I have a parrot as pet so I can say I would not be worried to use the word "intelectually". Many things some birds do show the same intelligence as baby and toddler humans so I am sure there is a bit more than "instinct" in that fruit picking :-)

KdonGalay
KdonGalay 11 years ago

thank you Noel Buensuceso

Noel Buensuceso
Noel Buensuceso 11 years ago

Great spot!

KdonGalay
KdonGalay 11 years ago

thanks Phil S

Phil_S
Phil_S 11 years ago

Very interesting spotting!

KdonGalay
Spotted by
KdonGalay

Cagayan De Oro, Misamis Oriental, Philippines

Spotted on Oct 14, 2012
Submitted on Oct 14, 2012

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