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    (c) anthonypaul, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Kerri Faull, all rights reserved

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    (c) Graham Winterflood, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Mistletoebird

Dicaeum hirundinaceum

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About

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 has adapted its digestive system to help spread the mistletoe seeds.

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