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  Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula)





Yellow-throated Miner | Manorina flavigula photo
Yellow-throated Miner

Image by Michael Barritt & Karen May - Some rights reserved.    (view image details)







BIRD FACTS

Description
A medium-sized, solid honeyeater. Grey above and on the breast with a white rump and belly. Tail and wings are grey with a yellow flush. Distinct yellow flush on the side of the neck and a yellow forehead. Black face surrounding a bright yellow eye patch. Yellow bill and legs. Body size is 25 to 27 cm.

Yellow-throated Miners often hang out in family groups, which occupy and defend a territory. They can be quite noisy and aggressive at times, ganging up on other birds and driving them out of their territory. They are not afraid to take on much bigger birds such as eagles, crows and owls and their alarm calls can indicate the presence of snakes, goannas, cats and other predators. Their calls are often strident and harsh, but they also have a musical song often issued pre-dawn. They feed on nectar, fruits, and insects, and build a deep cup nest of grass and twigs, lined with soft materials, in the fork of a tree or shrub. They lay 3 or 4 pinkish eggs spotted and blotched with reds and browns.

Author credit: Terry Mahney / Charles Darwin University

Habitat
Dry open woodlands and shrublands.

Food
Omnivore

Range
Across Australia.

distribution map showing range of Manorina flavigula in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.


Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.




Classification
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Meliphagidae
Genus:Manorina
Species:flavigula
Common Name:Yellow-throated Miner

Relatives in same Genus
  Noisy Miner (M. melanocephala)
  Bell Miner (M. melanophrys)