Pale-billed Flowerpecker
A species of Typical Flowerpeckers Scientific name : Dicaeum erythrorhynchos Genus : Typical Flowerpeckers
Pale-billed Flowerpecker, A species of Typical Flowerpeckers
Botanical name: Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
Genus: Typical Flowerpeckers
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Description General Info
Description
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. 
Size
8 cm
Nest Placement
Tree
Feeding Habits
Pale-billed Flowerpecker's diet consists mainly of mistletoe fruits, nectar, spiders, and small insects. It forages solo or in pairs, often in the canopy, and may join mixed-species flocks in non-breeding season.
Habitat
Pale-billed Flowerpecker typically inhabits a variety of environments that include deciduous forests, mangrove ecosystems, agricultural areas, and plantations. This species shows a preference for regions with abundant fruiting trees, such as figs, and is often found in areas where mistletoe plants are present in the canopy.
Dite type
Frugivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Fruit
Behavior
In forested areas, they often visit the flowers of Loranthus (=Dendrophthoe) and Viscum species, the seeds of which are dispersed mainly by this and other flowerpecker species. The berries of these epiphytic parasites are usually swallowed whole (they sometimes pinch fruits and discard the seeds while feeding on the pulp but this technique is more often used by the syntopic thick-billed flowerpecker) and the seeds are voided after a rapid passage through their gut in about three to four minutes. The voided seed has a sticky coating and the bird applies its vent to the surface of a suitable perch and may turn around so as to get rid of the seed, which then sticks onto the branch where it may subsequently germinate. The flowers of Dendrophthoe falcata are pollinated by this species. The flower bud has a mechanism that causes pollen to explosively spray on the plumage of the visiting bird which nips the tips. In urban areas, they are particularly attracted to introduced fruit trees such as Muntingia calabura, the fruits of which may be swallowed whole or, in the case of ripe berries, crushed and the pulp accessed using their tongue. They also sip nectar from flowers such as those of Sterculia colorata and Woodfordia floribunda, pollinating them in the process.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Flowerpeckers Genus
Typical Flowerpeckers Species
Pale-billed Flowerpecker 
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