Pale-billed Flowerpecker

Pale-billed Flowerpecker

Dicaeum erythrorhynchos

Silhouette: Rachael Joakim · PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability ~20% · Possible
at Prayagraj

In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%

106 Verified sightings at Prayagraj
3,780 In all 18 parks From 2019 to 2026
February Best month
🌅 Crepuscular When it's spotted

About the Pale-billed Flowerpecker

The pale-billed flowerpecker or Tickell's flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrorhynchos) is a tiny bird that feeds on nectar and berries, found in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and western Myanmar. The bird is common especially in urban gardens with berry bearing trees. They have a rapid chipping call and the pinkish curved beak separates it from other species in the region.

This is a tiny bird, 8 cm long, and is one of the smallest birds occurring in most parts of southern India and Sri Lanka. The bird is plain brownish to olive green. The underside is buff olive and does not contrast greatly with the upperparts and not whitish as in the Nilgiri flowerpecker of the Western Ghats and Nilgiri hills nor is it streaked as in the thick-billed flowerpecker. The Nilgiri flowerpecker has a pale supercilium unlike this species which has no marking on the head. The Sri Lankan race ceylonense Babault, 1920 - is greyer and smaller than the nominate race of peninsular India. It has been considered one of the early flowerpeckers, originating in the Malay Peninsula, to colonize the Indian Subcontinent.

In forested areas, they often visit the flowers of Loranthus... Wikipedia →

Sounds

Uncertain0:14

India · 2025

© Jairam Vijayan · XC1036129 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Call0:43

Sri Lanka · 2022

© Okamoto Keita Sin · XC756571 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Song0:21

Sri Lanka · 2007

© Jelle Scharringa · XC652777 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Sinharaja Forest Reserve 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~60%
2 Horton Plains National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~60%
3 Udawalawe National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~30%
4 Minneriya National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~30%
5 Yala National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~30%
6 Wilpattu National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~20%
7 Mudumalai National Park 🇮🇳 India
~20%
8 Bandipur National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
9 Bandhavgarh National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
10 Sundarbans National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
11 Satpura National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
12 Nagarhole National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
13 Periyar National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
14 Kanha National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
15 Eravikulam National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
16 Royal Bardia National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
<5%
17 Gir National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
18 Jim Corbett National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Bengaluru 🇮🇳 India
~70%
2 Thiruvananthapuram 🇮🇳 India
~60%
3 Kollam 🇮🇳 India
~60%
4 Thrissur 🇮🇳 India
~50%
5 Hyderabad 🇮🇳 India
~50%
6 Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~50%
7 Mysuru 🇮🇳 India
~50%
8 Coimbatore 🇮🇳 India
~40%
9 Kochi 🇮🇳 India
~30%
10 Colachel 🇮🇳 India
~30%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Pale-billed Flowerpecker in Prayagraj?

Possible

About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-billed Flowerpecker sighting in Prayagraj on a given day, based on 106 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 139 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Pale-billed Flowerpecker in Prayagraj?

February and March

In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-billed Flowerpecker in Prayagraj on a given day, against about 10% in June–August and October–January, the lowest months. Those are among Prayagraj's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 260 mm in July.

What time of day is best to see a Pale-billed Flowerpecker?

Between 3 and 6 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pale-billed Flowerpecker sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.

Is Prayagraj the best place to see a Pale-billed Flowerpecker?

16th of 45

Of the 45 cities where we can rate Pale-billed Flowerpecker sightings, Prayagraj ranks 16th at about 20%. The best odds are in Bengaluru (India, about 70%), Thiruvananthapuram (India, about 60%) and Kollam (India, about 60%).

Which relatives of the Pale-billed Flowerpecker live in Prayagraj?

Same order: Passeriformes

The closest relatives of the Pale-billed Flowerpecker that you can see in Prayagraj (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are House Crow (about 80%), Jungle Babbler (about 80%) and Red-whiskered Bulbul (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Pale-billed Flowerpecker sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Pale-billed Flowerpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Prayagraj (106 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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