Description The Fuscous Honeyeater is a small olive-brown honeyeater. Has slightly darker colouring around the eye. It has a small, indistinct yellow ear tuft. The eye ring and base of bill are yellow out of breeding season and dark during breeding.
Size 15cm
Habitat forest, woodland, heath, urban gardens
Food insects, spiders, nectar
Breeding suspended cup of bark strips bound with spider web. Lays 3 oval pinkish eggs.
Range Eastern Australia from Queensland, south to eastern South Australia
Credits: Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
