|
BIRD FACTS |
Description
Back, wings and tail brown. Head grey, mottled with black and white. Underparts whitish, with a black moustache and bold black spots and streaks on the chest, giving it a barred appearance. Juveniles similar to adults, but black areas duller.
Common, occurring in singularly or in pairs and sometimes congregating at rich food sources. Resident. Forages mostly in foliage for invertebrates and nectar. Breeds Sept-May. Nests are domes with a side entrance, built from bark strips, grass or other plant material and bound with spider web usually attached to the outer foliage of a paperbark tree. Both parents build the nest, and probably both incubate; both feed the young. Eggs are whitish, with reddish, brownish, or purplish spots. Clutch size 1-3.
Author credit: Lindley McKay
Habitat
Mostly swampy and riverine forests, also open woodland and monsoon forest.
Food
Omnivore
Range
Northern Australia.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Meliphagidae | | Genus: | Ramsayornis | | Species: | fasciatus | | Common Name: | Bar-breasted Honeyeater |
Relatives in same Genus
Brown-backed Honeyeater (R. modestus)
|
|
