A photo of a Pale-billed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrorhynchos)
Pale-billed Flowerpecker

Pale-billed Flowerpecker

Dicaeum erythrorhynchos

The pale-billed flowerpecker or Tickell's flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrorhynchos) is a tiny bird that feeds on nectar and berries, found in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and western Myanmar. The bird is common especially in urban gardens with berry bearing trees. They have a rapid chipping call and the pinkish curved beak separates it from other species in the region. This is a tiny bird, 8 cm long, and is one of the smallest birds occurring in most parts of southern India and Sri Lanka. The bird is plain brownish to olive green. The underside is buff olive and does not contrast greatly with the upperparts and not whitish as in the Nilgiri flowerpecker of the Western Ghats and Nilgiri hills nor is it streaked as in the thick-billed flowerpecker. The Nilgiri flowerpecker has a pale supercilium unlike this species which has no marking on the head. The Sri Lankan race ceylonense Babault, 1920 - is greyer and smaller than the nominate race of peninsular India. It has been considered one of the early flowerpeckers, originating in the Malay Peninsula, to colonize the Indian Subcontinent
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Chonseng N Sangma
Sunday 26 Mar 2023 - 3:27am
India
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Chonseng N Sangma
Friday 17 Mar 2023 - 4:14am
India
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Hannah Bassett
Wednesday 28 Dec 2022 - 6:19am
India
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Arjun Cheyyur
Saturday 26 Nov 2022 - 7:34am
India
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