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Black-headed Honeyeater
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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Black-headed Honeyeater
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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BIRD FACTS |
Description
A small honeyeater with a short downcurved bill. Adults have an obvious black hood, white around the eye and no white band across the back of the neck. Black hood extends to form a black shoulder stripe. Back is olive green with brown wings and grey belly. Tail is brown.
This Tasmanian endemic builds a deep cup-shaped nest suspended from horizontal branches. It mostly feeds in the tree canopy on insects, nectar and fruit and can occur in flocks of 10-20 birds. Usually three eggs are laid. Nests of this species are sometimes parasitized by cuckoos.
Author credit: Kathryn Medlock / Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Habitat
Mature dry sclerophyll forest with a dense undergrowth of shrubs, heath and grasses.
Food
Nectar
Range
Tasmania
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: | Melithreptus | | Species: | affinis | | Common Name: | Black-headed Honeyeater |
Relatives in same Genus
White-throated Honeyeater (M. albogularis)
Black-chinned Honeyeater (M. gularis)
White-naped Honeyeater (M. lunatus)
Strong-billed Honeyeater (M. validirostris)
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