Scientific Name: Dicaeum agile
Common Name: Thick-billed Flowerpecker

Identifying Features: Short tail, small size, curved beak, brownish body, orange eyes, tubular tongue, blackish legs

Fun Facts:

  • They have featuring tubular tongues adapted to feed nectar. Although their diet consists of fruits, berries and insects as well.
  • Their nests appear to be camouflaged like a dry leaf which is actually made of plant fibres.

 

This image was clicked by Pradeepkumar Devadoss – via Flickr.

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