Mistletoebird

Dicaeum hirundinaceum

The mistletoebird, also known as the mistletoe flowerpecker, is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia 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. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 75,993 times across 16 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Oceania ranged from 28°S in January to 20°S in November, about 1,000 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.