Dollarbird

Heavily built, flat-headed dark blue bird with a short bright red bill. In flight has a characteristic white circle, or ‘dollar’, on each underwing. Juvenile lacks red bill. May resemble mynas in flight, but note longer wings, larger head, and more powerful, less frantic flight. Nests in cavities; typically tree hollows. Frequently perches on power-lines or in the tops of tall dead trees.

The dollarbird lives in open woodlands, parks, gardens, and other open areas. They are often found perching on bare branches or man-made structures.

AI Overview Learn more In Sri Lanka, the Dollarbird (also known as the Oriental Dollarbird) primarily feeds on a diet of large, flying insects like beetles (including chafers and carrion beetles), mantises, crickets, grasshoppers, shield bugs, cicadas, moths, and occasionally small lizards, which it catches in mid-air while "hawking" from a perch on a bare branch or wire, mainly during late afternoon and dusk hours.