Macleay's Honeyeater
Photo · (c) Romain Boisseau, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

BirdUp · Species

Macleay's Honeyeater

Xanthotis macleayanus(Ramsay, EP, 1875)

Endemic
Order
PASSERIFORMES
Family
Meliphagidae
Genus
Xanthotis
Commonness
Endemic
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

Macleay's honeyeater is a honeyeater endemic to Australia. Within Australia it has a limited distribution, occurring only in northern Queensland from Cooktown to the southern end of the Paluma Range. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forests and tropical moist lowland forests.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
South-east Cape York Pen., north-east QLD (north-east Australia)

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

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05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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