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Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Latin Name:
Dicaeum agile
Category:
Size:
9cm
Description:
Sexes alike. Olive-grey above, greener on rump; white-tipped tail; dull whitishgrey below, streaked brown, more on breast; orange-red eyes and thick, blue-grey beak seen at close range. Solitary or in pairs in canopy foliage; arboreal, restless; flicks tail often as it hunts under leaves or along branches; frequents parasitic clumps of Loranthus and Viscum.
Habitat:
forests, orchards, gardens.
Food:
figs, berries of Ficus, Lantana, Loranthus and Viscum; also feeds on insects, spiders and nectar.
Distribution:
India south of and including the Himalayan foothills; absent over arid parts of NW India and from large tracts of Tamil Nadu.
Call:
Call Description:
loud, sharp chik…chik.
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