Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
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 →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Horton Plains National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 3 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 4 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 5 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 6 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Mudumalai National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Sundarbans National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 11 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 12 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 13 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 14 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 15 | Eravikulam National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 16 | Royal Bardia National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 17 | Gir National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 18 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Kollam | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Thrissur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Mysuru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Colachel | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-billed Flowerpecker sighting in Salem on a given day, based on 179 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 41st most-seen of the 95 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and May
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-billed Flowerpecker in Salem on a given day, against under 5% in November, the lowest month.
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.
26th of 45
Of the 45 cities where we can rate Pale-billed Flowerpecker sightings, Salem ranks 26th at about 10%. The best odds are in Bengaluru (India, about 70%), Thiruvananthapuram (India, about 60%) and Kollam (India, about 60%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Pale-billed Flowerpecker that you can see in Salem (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are House Crow (over 90%), Black Drongo (about 70%) and Large-billed Crow (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pale-billed Flowerpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Salem (179 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.
