Feeding Striped Flowerpeckers
This is a video of feeding Striped Flowerpeckers, tiny, uncommon, very active birds endemic to the Philippines. They are found in most islands of our archipelago, but the most reliable (and accessible) sites for them are in Mt. Makiling in Laguna and in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. The Striped Flowerpecker looks very similar to a Grey-streaked Flycatcher, but can be easily differentiated by observing their behavior: the Striped Flowerpecker wags its tail from side to side while Grey-streaked Flycatcher prefers to perch on exposed treetops and flies out and returns to the same perch. They are efficient seed dispersal agents (especially mistle-toe, check out how in our posts here.) Some taxonomists lump this species with Thick-billed Flowerpecker, a flowerpecker ranging in other Southeast Asian countries.
Feeding Striped Flowerpeckers, Dicauem aeruginosum
June 2014, Mt. Makiling, Laguna and Kasibu, NUeva Viscaya
Video by Adrian Constantino
