#flowerpiercer

[herpsandbirds]

Masked Flowerpiercer (Diglossa cyanea), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Pichincha, Ecuador

photograph by Thomas Lebrun

[birdstudies]

January 11, 2024 - Bluish Flowerpiercer (Diglossa caerulescens) Found in the Andes in parts of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, these flowerpiercers live in and around mountain forests. Foraging alone or in pairs and often joining mixed-species flocks, they eat insects, small berries, and nectar. Though they sometimes pierce the bases of flowers to access nectar, like closely related species, they do this less often than many other flowerpiercers. Possibly breeding between June and February, they build open cup-shaped nests from dry grass and moss in bushes and mossy banks.

[birdblues]

Slaty Flowerpiercer

[alonglistofbirds]

[2225/11080] Chestnut-bellied flowerpiercer - Diglossa gloriosissima

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Thraupidae (tanagers) Genus: Diglossa (flowerpiercers)

Photo credit: John Cahill via Macaulay Library

[tinylongwing]

7: Indigo, for SciArt September

Quick little painting of an Indigo Flowerpiercer. Check out that funky beak shape!

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer

Photo: Aaron Maizlish

"Small, active, warblerlike bird of highlands. Found in flower banks, forest edges, and overgrown brushy fields with flowers, mainly within pine-oak and evergreen forests. Also visits towns and gardens with flowering shrubbery. Flits amid flowers, piercing the bases with its 'can-opener' bill."

- eBird

[birds-and-flowers]

Rusty Flowerpiercer (Diglossa sittoides)

© Richard Jeffers

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Indigo Flowerpiercer (Diglossa indigotica) © Edwin Múnera Chavarría

It hatches from blue, dark, distinctive, poor, red, small, typical, and western eggs.

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[audible-smiles]

Blue Birds of Happiness

Blue is an extra-fun color for birds to be, because, as you may have heard, it is not created by a pigment. Blue feathers (and the blue scales on butterfly wings, and the blue irises of some humans) are structural, meaning that the color is created by the physical properties of the living tissue, which are arranged in such a way that they reflect the short wavelengths of blue light. Often this is paired with a dark pigment which absorbs other colors of light and makes the blue 'pop'. Look at all the tints and shades they can make!

Mountain bluebird

2. Himalayan bluetail

3. Blue nuthatch

4. Blue jay

5. Indigo bunting

6. Great blue turaco

7. Tree swallow

8. Ultramarine flycatcher

9. Hyacinth macaw

10. Glaucous-blue grosbeak

11. Belted kingfisher

12. Blue dacnis

13. Taiwan blue-magpie

14. Shining honeycreeper

15. Siberian blue robin

16. Blue whistling-thrush

17. African blue flycatcher

18. White-throated magpie jay

19. Black-naped monarch

20. Blue paradise flycatcher

21. Cerulean warbler

22. Woodland kingfisher

23. Indian peafowl

24. Little blue heron

25. Philippine fairy-bluebird

26. Pinyon jay

27. Blackish-blue seedeater

28. Plum-throated cotinga

29. Deep-blue flowerpiercer

30. Blue coua

[tropic-havens]

Slaty Flowerpiercer (Diglossa plumbea)

Flowerpiercers are considered a parasitic bird. They have evolved beaks that pierce the base of flowers to drink nectar without helping pollinate the plant. You can see scars on the base of the flowers where it has been pierced before. This Slaty Flowerpiercer was photographed at Savegre Mountain Lodge in Costa Rica.

[gorbling]

black throated flowerpiercer

[birdstudies]

July 14, 2023 - Black-throated Flowerpiercer (Diglossa brunneiventris) Found in two separate ranges, one in Peru and northern Bolivia and another in northern Colombia, these flowerpiercers live in scrubby habitats, including the edges of forests. Foraging alone, in pairs or family groups and sometimes in mixed-species flocks, they eat nectar and insects, often piercing the bases of flowers to access nectar. They build open cup-shaped nests from grass stems, moss, and lichen in vegetation near the ground where females lay clutches of two eggs.

[invisible-goats]

Bird Names That Sound Like Insults

- Yellow-bellied sap sucker

- Perplexing scrubwren

- Marbled frogmouth

- Red-rumped bush tyrant

- Spangled drongo

- Tiny sky tyrant

- Hoary puffleg

- Horned screamer

- Fluffy-backed tit babbler

- Sad flycatcher

- Great bustard

- Drab seedeater

- Tinkling Cisticola

- Dickcissel

- Tomtit

- Moustached flowerpiercer

- Olivaceous siskin

- Red-billed oxpecker

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[2458/11080] Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer - Diglossa baritula

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Thraupidae (tanagers) Genus: Diglossa (flowerpiercers)

Photo credit: Esteban Matías via Macaulay Library

[lalulutres]

Masked Flowerpiercer.

📸: @rafaelmaffessa