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Yellow-tufted Honeyeater photographed at Currumbin Sanctuary.
Photograph by ozwildlife. Some rights reserved.
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BIRD FACTS
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Description
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
Size
20cm
Environment
open dry forests and woodlands
Food
feeds mainly on nectar from eucalypt flowers and insects
Breeding
Builds tightly woven, cup-shaped nest hung in understorey shrubs. Lays 1-3 eggs, usually 2.
Range
eastern and south-eastern mainland Australia
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Meliphagidae | | Genus: | Lichenostomus | | Species: | melanops | | Common Name: | Yellow-tufted Honeyeater |
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