Dicaeidae

Dicaeidae, the flowerpeckers, is a family of passerine birds comprising three genera, Dicaeum, Prionochilus and Pachyglossa, with 56 species in total, found across tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia. They are compact birds with short necks, legs and tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues, ranging in size from the 10-centimeter, 5.7-gram pygmy flowerpecker to the 18-centimeter, 12-gram mottled flowerpecker; many species are dully plumaged, though males of several carry brightly patterned crimson or glossy black plumage. Flowerpeckers eat nectar, berries, spiders and insects, and have evolved a specialized digestive system for efficiently processing mistletoe berries; they often join mixed-species feeding flocks with sunbirds and white-eyes, and some species, such as the mistletoebird, are highly nomadic across their range.