Nilgiri Flowerpecker

The Nilgiri flowerpecker is a tiny bird, about 9 cm long, with no marked difference between males and females. It forages in the forest canopy in the hill forests of the Western Ghats and Nilgiri hills of southern India. It was formerly a subspecies of what used to be called the plain flowerpecker, a name now reserved for Dicaeum minullum, and the form in north-eastern India extends into south-east Asia. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It feeds predominantly on nectar and fruit and is an important pollinator and disperser of mistletoes. It is pale brown above and whitish below, with a fine, slightly curved black bill and a bright pale yellow patch in the centre of the belly. Two or three eggs are laid in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree or bush. (Wikipedia, general species account)