Mistletoebird
Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Flowerpeckers

Mistletoebird

Dicaeum hirundinaceum

NENot Evaluated
Family
Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum), also known as the mistletoe flowerpecker, is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia (though absent from Tasmania and the driest desert areas) 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.

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Range and habitat

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.