Thick-billed Flowerpecker

The thick-billed flowerpecker is about 10cm long, with a dark stout bill and short tail, grey-brown upperparts and greyish-buff underparts with faint streaks. The sexes look alike. It is active and calls spick while foraging, mainly in tree tops in forests, and the nominate form often uses cultivated land and open woodland. It eats mostly berries and nectar, occasionally insects, and wipes mistletoe seeds off branches before eating the outer layer (Wikipedia, general species account).

It builds a camouflaged, hanging purse-shaped nest with usually about three eggs; in southern India it breeds from December to March. It ranges across tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia and Timor, and eleven subspecies are recognised. Samuel Tickell described it in 1833. The source does not mention Nepal or the Himalaya (Wikipedia, general species account).