THICK BILLED FLOWERPECKER - JUVENILE

Description:

The thick-billed flowerpecker (Dicaeum agile) is a tiny bird in the flowerpecker group. They feed predominantly on fruits and are active birds that are mainly seen in the tops of trees in forests. It is a resident bird in Sri Lanka with a wide distribution across tropical southern Asia from Indiaeast to Indonesia and Timor with several populations recognized as subspecies some of which are sometimes treated as full species.This is very rare capture to find a juvenile in my photograph. Juvenile may misidentified as pale billed flowerpeckers.

Habitat:

Like other flowerpeckers they feed mainly on berries, nectar but sometimes take insects. Many of the subspecies are found in dense lowland forests with the exception of the nominate race which is found mainly in cultivated areas or open forest.[3] Unlike the pale-billed flowerpecker, it does not swallow the berries of Loranthus (some species now in genus Dendrophthoe) and instead wipes the seeds on a branch and feeds on the epicarp. This makes it disperse the parasitic mistletoe locally unlike the other species. In Sri Lanka, they forage at a greater height in the canopy than the pale-billed flowerpecker