Legges's Flowerpecker
Dicaeum vincens
(Endangered).
Endemic. A rather
uncommon species
in forests and
adjoining gardens,
around foothills
and in the lower
hills in wet zone.
Lives in pairs
and generally
found high up
on tall trees.
The call is a
sharp, rapid kee-kee-kee-kee
pitched much higher
than that of Ple-Billed
Flowerpecker (Dicacum
erythrorhynchos).
Locating a male
uttering its high-pitched
song from a vantage
point of a tall
tree usually provides
good views. The
song is an ascending
keek-keek ending
with tit-
tit- tit- tiri.
Sometimes found
in bird waves.
Bodhinagala, Kitulgala(e.g.
Rest House garden),
Gilimale, Morapitiya
and Sihharaja
are good places
to see this species.
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