Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicNectar

ShrublandCup nestSmall · 18 g

Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops), photo 3 — Photo: themaskedlapwing · CC0

Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops), photo 4 — Photo: Luke Lythgoe · CC BY 4.0

Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops), photo 7 — Photo: finch_fanatic · CC0

ID tip

A species of the honeyeater family, perching birds that feed on insects and nectar. Tawny-crowned honeyeaters are sometimes observed hopping amongst plants on the ground to feed, considered as unusual behaviour amongst its near relations. It resembles the eastern and western spinebills and crescent honeyeater, but is distinguished by a tawny-colored crown above a white line separating the black markings of the face. The upper side of the body is a pale brown, becoming white plumage on the lower parts.

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When to see the Tawny-crowned Honeyeater

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 Tawny-crowned Honeyeater

Regular range

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

Australia

About the Tawny-crowned Honeyeater

The tawny-crowned honeyeater is a passerine bird native to southern Australia.

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Easily confused with

Barred HoneyeaterGliciphila undulataThe barred honeyeater is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.

White-bellied HoneyeaterGliciphila notabilisThe white-bellied honeyeater, also known as the New Hebrides honeyeater and the Vanuatu honeyeater, is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.

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