- Ptilotula ornata
Lichenostomus ornatus
Identification
14–18·5 cm (5½-7¼ in)
- Dark face
- Upswept yellow neck plume
- Olive-green head
- Yellow line under the dark eye
- Greyish-green upperparts
- Heavily streaked greyish-brown underparts
- Long, down-curved black bill
'Young birds have a yellow bill base and eye-ring.
Distribution
Mallee of southern Australia (south-western Western Australia to central New South Wales). Also observed in southern Queensland and [[Victoria.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Formerly placed in the genus Lichenostomus.
Habitat
Mallee-eucalypt and open woodlands, freshwater wetland areas and coasts.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet consists of a variety of arthropods and insects, lerps and nectar.
Breeding
They build an open, cup-shaped nest formed from wool, fresh grass and spider-webs, lined with wool, grass, plant-down and brightly-coloured feathers. It is suspended by the rim from a thin fork or from foliage of mallee eucalypts and other small shrubs. Both adults feed the young.
This species is parasitised by Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Pallid Cuckoo, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo and Shining Bronze-Cuckoo.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved January 2016)
- BirdsinBackyards
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-plumed Honeyeater. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-plumed_Honeyeater
External Links
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