Pale‑billed Flowerpecker Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Dicaeum trigonostigma
Family : Dicaeidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : All kind forests, Villages
Description : The Pale-billed Flowerpecker is a tiny plain olive-grey passerine of the treetops with a pale bill (length 8 cm, weight 6.3 g, wing 4.8 cm, bill 1.2 cm, tarsus 1.2 cm, tail 2.4 cm approximately). The upperparts are greyish-olive, slightly darker on the wings and tail. Its underparts are pale greyish merging into the head and with a variable yellowish-buff wash. It has hazel irises, thin curved pale flesh bill, and dark slaty legs, feet and claws. The male and the female look alike. It feeds mainly on berries of parasitic plants (mistletoes). It breeds in January-September.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Aethopyga nipalensis
((Mrs) Gould's Sunbird) -
Cinnyris asiaticus
(Olive-backed Sunbird) -
Dicaeum cruentatum
(Fire-breasted Flowerpecker) -
Leptocoma zeylonica
(Purple‑throated Sunbird) -
Cinnyris jugularis
(Fire‑tailed Sunbird) -
Arachnothera longirostra
(Streaked Spiderhunter) -
Aethopyga gouldiae
(Crimson Sunbird) -
Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
(Plain Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum melanoxanthum
(Yellow‑vented Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum ignipectus
(Little Spiderhunter)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:MSH Sourav (TU Dresden, Germany);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Frank Lambert(www.xeno-canto.org/Frank Lambert), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:MSH Sourav (TU Dresden, Germany);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Frank Lambert(www.xeno-canto.org/Frank Lambert), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.