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White-throated Honeyeater
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White-throated Honeyeater
Melithreptus albogularis
The white-throated honeyeater (Melithreptus albogularis) is a bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, native to New Guinea and eastern and northern Australia. It is 11.5 to 14.5 centimetres (4.5 to 5.7 in) long, olive green above and white below, with a black head, a white patch over the eye and a white stripe at the back of the neck.
From the article White-throated honeyeater on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The adult white-throated honeyeater is 11.5 to 14.5 cm (4.5 to 5.7 in) long, with olive-green or yellow-green upperparts, yellower on the rump, and white throat and underparts, a black head, a blue-white patch of bare skin over the eye, and a white stripe across the nape. The bill is black, the eyes red-brown, and the legs purple-brown. Various calls have been recorded.
Similar species. Western Australian Gilbert's honeyeaters (Melithreptus chloropsis) also have a white eye-patch, and so can be difficult to distinguish, but there is no range overlap. Eastern white-naped honeyeaters (M. lunatus) have a red eye-patch.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 12246.