Brown-headed Honeyeater
Immature, front
Brown-headed Honeyeater
Adult, front
| Brown-headed Honeyeater Immature, front | | Brown-headed Honeyeater Adult, front | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | ||||
| Family: | Honeyeater (Meliphagidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Brown-headed Honeyeater (Melithreptus brevirostris) | ||||
| This Photo: | Immature, profile | ||||
Thank you Ralph Foster, Tony and Jenny Dominelli, Jenny Donald & John Oliver for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere A very small honeyeater. Travels in flocks. A small pale brown, almost mustard, bare skin ring around the eye makes it look bulging. Olive green back, and grey-white breast. A distinctive buff ring starts by the eye and travels around the back of the head. They are always active, never sitting still. If you can't get a camera, or bino's, on to them you'd easily mistake them for thornbills or silvereyes. | |||||
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