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Grey-fronted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus plumulus) Size: 15-17 cm

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Taxonomy, classification

See Grey-fronted Honeyeater at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat

(for details refer to a field guide)

Grey-fronted Honeyeaters are endemic to Australia. The three races of Grey-fronted Honeyeaters have a range that may be considered the strangest of all bird species in Australia (for details see a field guide). If one takes an about 1200 km diameter near-circular exclusion zone around the centre of the north-eastern corner of SA, Grey-fronted Honeyeaters are found in an annular area around that zone with a width of a few hundred km. Their range thus includes Alice Springs (NT), Coober Pedy (SA), the lower Murry-Darling basin and further west a wide band between these two rivers (central NSW) and into central QLD, towards the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria. As small "additions" to this annulus their range includes the region of Mt. Isa, QLD, and the Flinders and Gammon Ranges, SA. In addition, there is an extension from the central NT to the Kimberleys in WA. Another almost linear extension runs from north-western SA into southern central WA, to about Geraldton, including Kalgoorlie on its southern edge.

Grey-fronted Honeyeaters can be found in open woodland, mallee and mulga-dominated scrub.

Sightings

Grey-fronted Honeyeaters are not normally found in the area where we live, near Narrabri, NSW. They were first spotted by us in March 2008, in the Gammon Ranges near Balcanoona, South Australia.

Photos

Race "graingeri"

Lateral view of a Grey-fronted Honeyeater, displaying conspicuously its black-edged yellow plume; this plume is wider than that of Yellow-plumed Honeyeaters

More frontal view of the same bird as above, now showing the streaking of its underparts

Food

Adults: Nectar, insects

Dependents: Insects

Water intake: Daily

Like many other honeyeaters, Grey-fronted Honeyeaters do not exclusively feed on nectar, but take insects too.

These pages are largely based on our own observations. For more salient facts on any bird species please refer to a field guide.

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