Wildlifeof Sri Lanka
Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Songbirds
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Pachyglossa agilis
Basic stats
Diet
Mainly fruit
Habitat
Forest tree tops
Range
Tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia and Timor
The thick-billed flowerpecker is a tiny bird that feeds mainly on fruit and is active, mostly seen in the tops of forest trees. It is a resident with a wide distribution across tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia and Timor, and eleven subspecies are recognised, some sometimes treated as full species. The subspecies zeylonica is listed for Sri Lanka (Wikipedia, general species account).
It was moved from Dicaeum to the genus Pachyglossa after the old genus proved not to be a natural group. Nationally Near Threatened (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012, listed as Dicaeum agile).
Quick answers
- What does the Thick-billed Flowerpecker eat?
- Mainly fruit
- What habitat does the Thick-billed Flowerpecker live in?
- Forest tree tops
- Where is the Thick-billed Flowerpecker found?
- Tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia and Timor