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Grey-fronted Honeyeater
Ptilotula plumula(Gould, 1841)
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- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Meliphagidae
- Genus
- Ptilotula
At a glance
The Grey-fronted Honeyeater is a small bird, about 14–17 cm long, native to Australia. It can be seen year-round.
- Size
- 14–17 cm
- Origin
- Native
- Best seen
- Year-round
- Commonness
- Very common
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
What does a Grey-fronted Honeyeater look like?
The Grey-fronted Honeyeater is a small bird, about 14–17 cm long and weighing 11–28 g.
The grey-fronted honeyeater is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The grey-fronted honeyeater was originally described in 1841 by English ornithologist John Gould as Lichenostomus plumulus. It was moved to the genus Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that Lichenostomus was polyphyletic.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
03 · When
When to look
When can you see a Grey-fronted Honeyeater?
The Grey-fronted Honeyeater is present across its Australian range year-round, so it can be seen in any month.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
What does a Grey-fronted Honeyeater eat?
The Grey-fronted Honeyeater feeds on fruit, nectar/pollen and terrestrial invertebrates, usually foraging in pairs or flocks or alone.
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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