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Yellow-throated Honeyeater
Yellow-throated Honeyeater
Lichenostomus Flavicollis
Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)
The yellow-throated honeyeater is a beautiful bird endemic to Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands. They have a yellow throat, a brown grey chest and yellow and brown wings with some specks of white. It’s got a black beak and a brown head with a stripe of grey next to its eyes.
190mm - 210mm
Their gorgeous yellow throats.
The yellow-throated honeyeaters often live in pairs. They have an interesting habit of stealing hair from other animals, including humans, to line their nests.
Picture by Kim Murray
They stay in the same area for a long time. They are known to defend their territory rather viciously.
The yellow-throated honeyeater mainly feeds on insects and nectar. They can feed at all levels of the forest. They sometimes feed on fruits and seeds as well.
Their nests are weaven by the female, from grasses, bark and spiderwebs. Their breeding season is in spring and they have up to three eggs per year.
The yellow-throated honey eater is found on Tasmania as well as some offshore Islands.
Protected
Loss of habitat.
A specific sort of a tonk, tonk, tonk, sound that is repeated a few times.
You can find the yellow-throated honeyeater on offshore islands of Tasmania or Tasmania itself.
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