Thick-billed Spiderhunter

Arachnothera crassirostris

Family: Spiderhunters and Sunbirds · Status: Former resident and very rare visitor · Size: 16.5–17 cm · Conservation: Least Concern

Range

Occurs from the Thai-Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo.

Identification

Adult has a notably thick bill, grey-olive throat and upper breast, broken pale yellow eyering, olive eyestripe, and brown upperparts. Juvenile has greyer underparts. Thicker bill, darker olive breast, browner upperparts, and lack of white tail-tip separate it from Little Spiderhunter. Differs from Yellow-eared Spiderhunter in uniformly greyish-olive underparts without yellow tones or breast streaks, and absence of yellow ear patch.

Habitat

Forest, forest edge and secondary growth; also gardens and plantations, particularly around wild bananas and gingers.