Brown-backed Honeyeater
UncommonGBIF 30.5·Dongniao Rarity Index9.08
Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus) 是雀形目吸蜜鸟科胶蜜鸟属的鸟类。小型鸟类，主要分布在新几内亚海岸线和澳大利亚东北部的约克角半岛及其周边地区，常见于沿海地带的多种生境。
Brown-backed Honeyeater
11-13 cm. Note pinkish brown bill and legs; olive-brown above and on ear-coverts; throat/underparts white, with sparse brownish scallops. Thin white line from bill under eye, above a thinner dark brown streak. Immature: gape-streak washed yellow; breast streaked brown; rump rufous. Pairs, small colonies: lively; with other honeyeaters at blossom.
- Similar Species
- Bar-breasted; imm. Rufous-banded, Rufous-throated Honeyeaters.
- Voice
- fussy, chattering 'shee-shee-shee'; sharper 'chit' rapidly repeated. Flight-call: 'mick-mick-mick'.
- Habitat
- paperbark woodlands, waterside thickets, blossoming eucalypt woodlands, mangroves; ventures far from cover; perches dead trees.
- Breeding
- Oct.-March.
- Nest
- domed, hanging, of paperbark strips, spiders' web, egg-sacs; suspended from branchlets, 1-16 m high, near or over water, in loose colony in paperbarks, eucalypts, mangroves.
- Eggs
- 2; white, dotted purplish black. Parasitised by Brush Cuckoo.
- Range & Status
- coastal ne. Q and islands: from C. York (Q), s. on w. coast to Archer R.; on e. coast s. to c. Bowen; inland to Coen-Atherton Tableland. Common; patchier in higher, drier parts of range. Migratory, or seasonally nomadic. Also Torres Strait Is., PNG.
