Brown-backed flowerpecker

Brown-backed flowerpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species: D. everetti
Binomial name
Dicaeum everetti
(Sharpe, 1877)

The brown-backed flowerpecker (Dicaeum everetti) is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. The scientific name commemorates British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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