Grey-fronted Honeyeater vs Yellow-plumed Honeyeater

Grey-fronted Honeyeater

Ptilotula plumula

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The grey-fronted honeyeater is a small, plain honeyeater with a yellow neck plume bordered above by black. It has a small grey patch at the forehead, that may be obscure in northern subspecies. The crown is olive yellow and the lores blackish. The upper parts are olive grey and flight feathers yellow olive. Underparts are off white with indistinct stripes. The grey-fronted honeyeater can easily be confused with the yellow-tinted honeyeater as their ranges overlap and they are of similar size.

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Yellow-plumed Honeyeater

Ptilotula ornata

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The yellow-plumed honeyeater is a medium-sized honeyeater with a relatively long, down-curved black bill, a dark face and a distinctive, upswept yellow neck plume. It has an olive-green head, with a faint yellow line under the dark eye, grey-green upperparts, and heavily streaked grey-brown underparts. Young birds have a yellow bill base and eye-ring. Similar species include purple-gaped honeyeater, grey-fronted honeyeater and fuscous honeyeater. Voice: The song is a loud, clear, three-note chier wit chier, often performed before dawn, and by males during display flight.

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