_mistletoebird-female-with-young-bird-dicaeum-hirundinaceum-dicaeidae-flowerpeckers-canberra-australia.jpg "Mistletoebird (female with young bird) (Dicaeum hirundinaceum, Dicaeidae: Flowerpeckers) Canberra, Australia from mistletoe berries Video Screenshot Preview")
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✓ Published: 13-Jan-2018
✓ Published: 13-Jan-2018
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The tiny brightly-coloured Mistletoebird is the only Flowerpecker resident on mainland Australia, It is widespread across all of Australia, but absent from Tasmania. As its common name suggest, it is intimately linked with native mistletoes. It eats the berries (seen here) and will defecate them somewhere else in a sticky mess. If it is on the right host they will grow. This bird, possibly a recent arrival to Australia in evolutionary terms, is now the main means by which these parasitic plants
The tiny brightly-coloured Mistletoebird is the only Flowerpecker resident on mainland Australia, It is widespread across all of Australia, but absent from Tasmania. As its common name suggest, it is intimately linked with native mistletoes. It eats the berries (seen here) and will defecate them somewhere else in a sticky mess. If it is on the right host they will grow. This bird, possibly a recent arrival to Australia in evolutionary terms, is now the main means by which these parasitic plants
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