Thick‑billed Flowerpecker Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Dicaeum chrysorrheum
Family : Dicaeidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : All kind of forests
Description : Thick-billed Flowerpecker is a tiny greyish passerine of the treetops with a stubby bill (length 10 cm, weight 8.5 g, wing 6 cm, bill 1.4 cm, tarsus 1.4 cm, tail 3 cm). The upperparts are unmarked dull olive-grey, the rump and fringes of the wing feathers have an olive cast, that tail is short and darker with a narrow white terminal band on tail. The underparts are greyish-white with an indistinct dark malar stripe and faint brown streaks on the breast. Its irises are orange-red, the stout bill is horn-grey with a duskier upper mandible, and the mouth is bright yellow. It has slaty legs and feet. The male and the female look alike. It breeds in January-June. It feeds on figs, berries, nectar, spiders and insects.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Dicaeum agile
(Orange‑bellied Flowerpecker) -
Aethopyga ignicauda
(Green‑tailed Sunbird) -
Cinnyris asiaticus
(Olive-backed Sunbird) -
Aethopyga siparaja
(Black-breasted Weaver) -
Dicaeum cruentatum
(Fire-breasted Flowerpecker) -
Leptocoma sperata
(Purple Sunbird) -
Dicaeum ignipectus
(Little Spiderhunter) -
Cinnyris jugularis
(Fire‑tailed Sunbird) -
Dicaeum melanoxanthum
(Yellow‑vented Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
(Plain Flowerpecker)
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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: markus lilje(www.inaturalist.org/people/markus lilje),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Ross Gallardymore 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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: markus lilje(www.inaturalist.org/people/markus lilje),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Ross Gallardymore information, please contact us.