The Flame-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird from Buru Island, Indonesia. Its Buru form has a bright white area just above the red patch on its breast.
In the Buru population, a bright white area lies just above the red breast patch. The Halmahera population has a gray breast and throat around its red patch.
It lives in humid tropical forest and scrub, including areas near streams. It eats fruit from trees and shrubs and nests in cavities.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.