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DUSKY HONEYEATER FACTS |
Description
Small honeyeater. Wholly dark brown with a dark, down-curved bill. Juveniles similar to adults.
Occurs in singles or pairs, often congregating at flowering trees. Resident. Forages in trees and shrubs, eating mostly nectar, also invertebrates. Presence given away by a call like a squeaky toy. Breeds in most months of the year, although not Jan-Mar. A cup-shaped nest is built from bark, grass, other plant material and spider webs, lined with grass or hair and suspended by its rim in the foliage of a shrub or tree. Eggs are white with spots and blotches of pale red, red-brown or greyish purple. Clutch size is 2.
Author credit: Lindley McKay
Habitat
Prefers the denser treed habitats of rainforests, monsoon and riverine forests, but also found in open woodland, and occasionally mangroves.
Food
Omnivore
Range
Northern and eastern 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: | Myzomela | | Species: | obscura | | Common Name: | Dusky Honeyeater |
Relatives in same Genus
Red-headed Honeyeater (M. erythrocephala)
Scarlet Honeyeater (M. sanguinolenta)
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