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BIRD FACTS |
Description
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
Size
24cm
Habitat
dry woodland, scrubland, semi-desert and desert in the arid interior
Food
feeds on nectar and fruit and also some insects
Breeding
lays two or three mottled off-white eggs in cup-shaped nest made of plant fibre, usually found 1m to 10 m above ground.
Range
found across much of inland Australia. It is not found in the wet tropical north, or wetter coastal forest along east coast, and far south west of Western Australia. It is not found in Tasmania.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Meliphagidae | | Genus: | Acanthagenys | | Species: | rufogularis | | Common Name: | Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater |
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