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Sooty Honeyeater

Melionyx fuscus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernForest
Sooty Honeyeater (Melionyx fuscus), photo 1
Photo: Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0
Sooty Honeyeater (Melionyx fuscus), photo 2
Photo: (c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Sooty Honeyeater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Sooty Honeyeater

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Papua New Guinea Indonesia

About the Sooty Honeyeater

The sooty honeyeater is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Short-bearded Honeyeater (Melionyx nouhuysi) Short-bearded HoneyeaterMelionyx nouhuysiThe short-bearded honeyeater is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. Long-bearded HoneyeaterMelionyx princepsThe long-bearded honeyeater is 27 cm long.

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