South-eastern Singing Honeyeater
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Ellura
South-eastern Singing Honeyeater
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South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (Gavicalis virescens ssp sonorus)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Perching Birds (Passeriformes)
Family: Honeyeater (Meliphagidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (Gavicalis virescens ssp sonorus)
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Synonym: Lichenostomus virescens

Thank you Terra Occ & Josh Magro (JMag1) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges, Coastal Areas and elsewhere
Generally olive with a black stripe through the eye. The black stripe is then highlighted with a yellow patch bleeding to white below the ear.
The Ellura specimens seem to have a more prominent white area behind the yellow patch than we've seen before.
Its song is similar to a Red Capped Robin.

Copyright © 2014-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 17-Jun-2014
This species is classed as LC (Least Concern) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)