Australian Honeyeaters
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FAMILY : Honeyeaters
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Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
(Acanthagenys rufogularis) |
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The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is a greyish-brown honeyaeter with orange throat and chest, and white and brown streaked underside. It is a sociable bird Click to continue> |
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Eastern Spinebill
(Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) |
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The Eastern Spinebill is a small honeyeater with long curved bill. The male has black head and the female has greyer head. Tan coloured underneath. Click to continue> |
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Western Spinebill
(Acanthorhynchus superciliosus) |
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The Western Spinebill is a small honeyeater with long slender curved bill. The male has black head and rusty red band around the back of the neck to the underside of the bill and down the chest. The back and wings are grey. The female is duller with... Click to continue> |
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Little Wattlebird
(Anthochaera chrysoptera) |
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The Little Wattlebird is a brown honeyeater. The chest is brown streaked with white and belly is white. The head and upper back is flecked with fine white streaks. It has a paler area on the side of the head below the eye. The grey bill is fairly... Click to continue> |
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Red Wattlebird
(Anthochaera carunculata) |
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The Red Wattlebird is a large greyish-brown honeyeater with reddish-brown eye. It has a red wattle on each side of the neck. It has white streaks on the chest and belly. The long tail has a white tip. Young Red Wattlebirds are plainer with less... Click to continue> |
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Western Wattlebird
(Anthochaera lunulata) |
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The Western Wattlebird is a brown honeyeater. It is very similar to the Little Wattlebird (A. chrysoptera) from the eastern states, and considered as a sub-species in some publications. The chest is brown streaked with white and belly is white.... Click to continue> |
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Yellow Wattlebird
(Anthochaera paradoxa) |
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The Yellow Wattlebird is a large honeyeater from Tasmania. The back and wings are brown, and the head and chest are white streaked with brown. The top of the head is white streaked with brown and the face is white with a long yellow and orange... Click to continue> |
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Black Honeyeater
(Certhionyx niger) |
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The Black Honeyeater is a honeyeater endemic to Australia. The male has a black head, neck, wings and upper parts, and a black stripe running down the centre of the chest, with a white underside. The female is pale brown above with paler scalloped... Click to continue> |
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Rufous-banded Honeyeater
(Conopophila albogularis) |
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The Rufous-banded Honeyeater has a grey head, brown back. The leading edge of wings are yellow, forming a large yellow wing patch when bird is at rest. The throat is white and chest is reddish brown. The underside is white. The legs and bill is... Click to continue> |
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Blue-faced Honeyeater
(Entomyzon cyanotis) |
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The Blue-faced Honeyeater is a large honeyeater with patch of blue skin around the eye. It has black head and face. The back and wings are olive green, and the underparts are white. Juvenile birds are similar to the adults but have yellow-green skin... Click to continue> |
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White-fronted Chat
(Epthianura albifrons) |
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The White-fronted Chat is a small white faced bird from southern Australia. The male has a white face and broad black band across the breast and round the back of the head. The back is grey, and the wings and tail are brown, and abdomen is white.... Click to continue> |
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Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
(Gliciphila melanops) |
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Painted Honeyeater
(Grantiella picta) |
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Fuscous Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus fuscus) |
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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. Click to continue> |
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Grey-headed Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus keartlandi) |
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Mangrove Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus fasciogularis) |
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Purple-gaped Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus cratitius) |
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Singing Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus virescens) |
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Varied Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus versicolor) |
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White-eared Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus leucotis) |
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White-plumed Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus penicillatus) |
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Yellow Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus flavus) |
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Yellow-faced Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus chrysops) |
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Yellow-throated Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus flavicollis) |
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Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
(Lichenostomus melanops) |
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The Yellow-tufted Honeyeater is a medium sized honeyeater. It is olive-brown above, yellowish grey below, with a black face mask and bright yellow ear tufts and sides of the throat Click to continue> |
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