Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
In Flight
Ellura
Eastern Spinebill
Profile
 
                      
Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Perching Birds (Passeriformes)
Family: Honeyeater (Meliphagidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris)
This Photo:     Front

Thank you George Seagull 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
You could have knocked us over with a feather when we saw one of these in a water bowl at Ellura! We are quite used to seeing them in the Adelaide Hills, but they rarely seem to ventue North/East of the Hills.

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 11-Apr-2016
This species is classed as RA (Rare) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)