Prakruti Parichay
DicaeidaeDicaeum

Pale-billed Rowerpecker

Oicaeum erythrorhynchos

8–8 cmVery Small
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
No crest

Widespread resident; unrecorded in parts of NE and NW subcontinent. From Nilgiri and Plain Flowerpeckers by pinkish bill. Very plain with greyish-olive upperparts with slight greenish cast, and pale greyish underparts with variable yellowish-bull wash. D. e. ceylonense(Sri Lanka) has brown cul men and darker. more olive upperparts. Open broadleaved forest and well-wooded a reas. Feeds chiefly on mistletoe berries.

Colour

GreyOliveBrown
Average size
8 cm
Behaviour
Widespread resident, unrecorded in parts of NE and NW subcontinent., Open broadleaved forest and well-wooded a reas. Feeds chiefly on mistletoe berries.

About this bird

Widespread resident; unrecorded in parts of NE and NW subcontinent. From Nilgiri and Plain Flowerpeckers by pinkish bill. Very plain with greyish-olive upperparts with slight greenish cast, and pale greyish underparts with variable yellowish-bull wash. D. e. ceylonense(Sri Lanka) has brown cul men and darker. more olive upperparts. Open broadleaved forest and well-wooded a reas. Feeds chiefly on mistletoe berries.

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Pale-billed Rowerpecker is bigger than Ruddy Shelduck but smaller than Andaman Flowerpecker.

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Pale-billed Rowerpecker

Oicaeum erythrorhynchos

8–8 cm