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Black-chinned Honeyeater - BirdForum Opus

(Redirected from Golden-backed Honeyeater)
Photo by Tom Tarrant
Petrie, south-eastern Queensland, August 2003
Photo by peterday
Sub-species Laetior
Standley Chasm, Alice Springs NT, Australia, July 2016
Melithreptus gularis

Includes: Golden-backed Honeyeater

Identification

17 cm

  • Black cap
  • White crescent around nape
  • White throat with black centre line
  • Crescent-shaped blue skin over the eye
  • Dull olive-green back and wings
  • Greyish-brown tail
  • White underparts
  • Greyish-buff breast
  • Slightly downcurved bill is short and black

Distribution

Endemic to Australia: found in New South Wales, Queensland South Australia and Victoria.

Taxonomy

Subspecies[1]

Laetior is sometimes split as Golden-backed Honeyeater.

Habitat

Drier eucalypt forests; woodlands; timber on watercourses, often with no understorey; scrubs; ironbark forests.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes insects, nectar and honeydew.

Breeding

Breeding takes place from June to December. The compact, suspended, cup-shaped nest is placed high in the crown of a tree, in the uppermost lateral branches, hidden by foliage. The clutch consists of 2-3 eggs. Both adults (and occasionally helpers) feed the young.

Vocalisation

The call is a ringing, bubbling trill, repeated several times.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Avibase
  3. threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au
  4. BF member observations

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