White-eared Honeyeater
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Ellura
White-eared Honeyeater
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White-eared Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis leucotis)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Perching Birds (Passeriformes)
Family: Honeyeater (Meliphagidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: White-eared Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis leucotis)
This Photo:     Ventral
Synonym: Lichenostomus leucotis

Thank you Thomas Mesaglio & Jenny Donald for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Dark olive with rectangular a white patch around the ear.

Copyright © 2012-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 07-Oct-2012
This species is classed as RA (Rare) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)