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Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Pachyglossa agilis (Tickell, 1833)
Dicaeidae — Flowerpeckers
Thick-billed Flowerpecker, Pachyglossa agilis, is a passerine of the Dicaeidae family that breeds widely across the Oriental Region and also in the Lesser Sundas. It is a resident bird of tropical southern Asia, ranging from India eastwards to Indonesia and Timor. The species was first described by Tickell in 1833. It has a dark, heavy bill and a short tail, and the sexes cannot be told apart in the field. The juvenile shows a paler lower mandible and fewer streaks below. It was once placed in Dicaeum.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicaeidae — Flowerpeckers
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: widespread, also Lesser Sundas
