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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Anaikatty, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu Date: 13th February 2013 Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor 300mm f2.8 + 1.7x TC
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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Anaikatty, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu Date: 13th February 2013 Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor 300mm f2.8 + 1.7x TC
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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Anaikatty, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu Date: 13th February 2013 Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor 300mm f2.8 + 1.7x TC
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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Anaikatty, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu Date: 13th February 2013 Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor 300mm f2.8 + 1.7x TC
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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam Date: 15th March 2013 Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor 300mm f2.8 + 1.7x TC
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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam Date: 15th March 2013 Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor 300mm f2.8 + 1.7x TC
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Pale-billed flowerpecker in the Loranthus bushes growing on a Mahua tree (Madhuca longifolia). Flowers of Loranthus (Dendrophthoe falcata coccinea) contains substantial nectar to attract many nectar-feeders such as flowerpeckers and sunbirds. Producing good amount of nectar is a strategy used by plant to attract birds as the mature buds require external force like tripping to ensure it opens up. Once probed by bird's beak, buds eject a cloud of pollens which sticks to the head or beak of the bird, thus this helps plant to pollinate. However it is a parasite that grows on a tree and can quickly spread to the nearby trees. Nature has a solution to this too to check spreading of Loranthus. Common Jezebel butterfly (Delias eucharis) lay eggs on Loranthus leaves. When the eggs hatch, butterfly's lave munch on its leaves and thus prevent this parasite to spread out of control.
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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam Date: 21st March 2014 Equipment: Nikon D800 with Micro-Nikkor 105mm
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Pale-billed Flowerpecker Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam Date: 21st March 2014 Equipment: Nikon D800 with Micro-Nikkor 105mm
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Female, Subspecies palawanorum.
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Time Observed: around 7:00 AM
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The Thick Billed Flowerpecker is a tiny bird in the flowerpecker group. They feed predominantly on fruits and are active birds that are mainly seen in the tops of trees in forests. These Flowerpeckers are about 10 cm long and has a dark stout beak and short tail. They are dark grey brown above and dull greyish with diffuse streaking on light buffy underparts. The rump is slightly more olive in the nominate race. The bill is dark, somewhat stout and heavy and the iris is reddish. The sexes are not distinguishable in the field and the juvenile has a paler base to the mandible and less streaks on the underside. There are whitish spots at the tip of the tail feathers. The nominate race is found on the plains of the mainland of the Indian Subcontinent.
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Juvenile
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Male
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We were setting up mistnets in a flyway near the forest edge for bats at night, and this guy ran right into the net before it was even up. Released immediately.
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We were setting up mistnets in a flyway near the forest edge for bats at night, and this guy ran right into the net before it was even up. Released immediately.