Noisy Miner

What the Noisy Miner sounds like

Recorded by James Ray · Call · Bronte, Waverley Council, New South Wales, Australia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Noisy Miner

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Noisy Miner

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Noisy Miner

The noisy miner is a bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, and is endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia. This miner is a grey bird, with a black head, orange-yellow beak and feet, a distinctive yellow patch behind the eye, and white tips on the tail feathers. The Tasmanian subspecies has a more intense yellow panel in the wing, and a broader white tip to the tail. Males, females and juveniles are similar in appearance, though young birds are a brownish-grey. As the common name suggests, the noisy miner is a vocal species with a large range of songs, calls, scoldings and alarms, and almost constant vocalisations, particularly from young birds.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-throated MinerManorina flavigulaThe yellow-throated miner's color and shape is very similar to the closely related noisy and black-eared miners. Bell MinerManorina melanophrysBell miners are the smallest of their genus, and differ from the other three predominantly grey miner species in having olive-green plumage, darker on the wings and yellower on the belly. Black-eared MinerManorina melanotisThe black-eared miner is an endangered honeyeater endemic to mallee woodland in south-eastern Australia.

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