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| − | [[Image:Mangrove_Honeyeater.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Tom Tarrant]] | + | [[Image:Mangrove_Honeyeater.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Tom Tarrant <br/> Location: Lota, SE Qld]] |
| | ==Identification== | | ==Identification== |
| − | Location: Lota, SE Qld
| + | Dark grey-brown back, yellow edges to wing and tail feathers and yellow brown throat. A broad black band through the eye is bordered below by a yellow streak. |
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| − | Mangrove Honeyeaters are medium-sized honeyeaters, dark grey-brown backed with yellow edges to the wing and tail feathers and yellowish brown throat. A broad black band through the eye is bordered below by a yellow streak. The bird’s two to four note call is clear and strong and is repeated in a rollicking sequence.
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| | ==Distribution== | | ==Distribution== |
| − | Confined to the coastal fringe and offshore islands of eastern Australia from the Townsville area, Queensland south to the NSW north coast. It is common in Queensland but rare in NSW, where a few colonies exist at scattered localities, including the Tweed, Richmond and Clarence River estuaries and Stuarts Point south of Macksville.
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| | ==Taxonomy== | | ==Taxonomy== |
| | ==Habitat== | | ==Habitat== |
| − | Primary habitat is mangrove forest but the species also occurs in other near-coastal forests and woodlands, including casuarina and paperbark swamp forests.
| + | Mangrove forest. |
| − | It sometimes frequents adjacent shrublands and woodlands dominated by banksias and eucalypts.
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| − | It sometimes visits gardens in coastal towns.
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| − | Clearing of old mangrove stands and adjoining forest and woodland vegetation for tourist, residential and infrastructure development are a threat to the species.
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| | ==Behaviour== | | ==Behaviour== |
| | ==External Links== | | ==External Links== |
Revision as of 15:48, 16 October 2007
- Lichenostomus fasciogularis
Photo by Tom Tarrant
Location: Lota, SE Qld
Identification
Dark grey-brown back, yellow edges to wing and tail feathers and yellow brown throat. A broad black band through the eye is bordered below by a yellow streak.
Distribution
Australia
Taxonomy
Habitat
Mangrove forest.
Behaviour
External Links
