South-eastern Singing Honeyeater
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South-eastern Singing Honeyeater
Feeding in Zygophyllum
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| South-eastern Singing Honeyeater Head | | South-eastern Singing Honeyeater Feeding in Zygophyllum | | ||
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 | 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)| This Photo: | Top of Head | 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.
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