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Dicaeum hirundinaceum · Family Dicaeidae

Dicaeum hirundinaceum

Family Dicaeidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Dicaeidae
GBIF occurrence records
425,546
Countries and territories with records
5
Mistletoebird
Duncan McCaskill · Dicaeum hirundinaceum -near Lake Ginninderra, Canberra, Australia -male-8 (1).jpg · CC BY 3.0 · Duncan McCaskill · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Cameron Davidson · Dicaeum_hirundinaceum_-_Mistletoebird_XC138390.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cameron Davidson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 425,546 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.8% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.39% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Dicaeum hirundinaceum combines the genus name Dicaeum with the species epithet hirundinaceum. The Warbla app catalog lists 37 species of the genus Dicaeum; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dicaeum erythrorhynchos, Dicaeum cruentatum and Dicaeum concolor.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 42 species of the family Dicaeidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 14.4 times the family average (29,634). The family Dicaeidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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