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Yellow-faced HoneyeaterAlternative name: "Chickup" |
Sightings
Yellow-faced Honeyeaters are summer visitors where we lived, 20 km south of Narrabri, New South Wales. They are shier than other Honeyeaters and therefore harder to spot. After several sightings in 2004, we did not see any in 2005, but then again in August and September of 2006.
Spotted in Mount Kaputar National Park, 30-40 km east of Narrabri, where they are common, in September 2007 and again in April 2008. Also seen in Deriah Forest, 30 km east of Narrabri, in May 2008 and at several locations along Bullawa Creek in October 2008.
Again spotted by us in December 2008, 20 km west of Barraba, NSW.
Photos
Frontal view of a Yellow-faced Honeyeater (click on image for larger version)
View from behind of a Yellow-faced Honeyeater (click on image for larger version)
Yellow-faced Honeyeater feeding on a Bottlebrush flower (click on image for larger version)
Yellow-faced Honeyeater sitting in a Bottlebrush tree (click on image for larger version)
Yellow-faced Honeyeater feeding on a Bottlebrush flower (click on image for larger version)
View from beneath of a Yellow-faced Honeyeater, demonstrating how hard it is to tell one type of honeyeater from another when one can see only the front (click on image for larger version)
Yellow-faced Honeyeater just after takeoff (click on image for full-size display)
Nest
Yellow-faced Honeyeater nest in a low branch of a pinetree (click on image for larger version)
Habits
Yellow-faced Honeyeaters are one of the bird species that dive into shallow water from a perch and then fly back onto their perch to preen and dry their plumage.