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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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When to see the Yellow-plumed 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 Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
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About the Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
The yellow-plumed honeyeater is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia, where it inhabits temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-tinted HoneyeaterPtilotula flavescensThe yellow-tinted honeyeater is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.
Fuscous HoneyeaterPtilotula fuscaThe fuscous honeyeater is dull grey-brown to olive-brown above with buffy-grey underparts.
Grey-headed HoneyeaterPtilotula keartlandiThe grey-headed honeyeater is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.
Side by side: White-plumed Honeyeater vs Yellow-plumed Honeyeater · Fuscous Honeyeater vs Yellow-plumed Honeyeater · Grey-fronted Honeyeater vs Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
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