Banded Honeyeater
Cissomela pectoralis· 吸蜜鸟科(1 photos)
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Banded Honeyeater
11.5-13.5 cm. Note black upperparts and breastband, white underparts and rump. Immature: gape/face yellow; crown/back tawny, mottled; breastband absent or brownish. Pairs, small flocks: active, noisy in blossoms.
- Similar Species
- Black, Pied Honeyeaters.
- Voice
- throaty 'dup'; scratchy 'jap'; peevish, finch-like 'tweet'; clear, cheerful song.
- Habitat
- grassy woodlands; paperbarks, coastal scrubs, mangroves, watercourse vegetation; drier habitats when bauhinias, etc., blossom.
- Breeding
- Oct.-April.
- Nest
- flimsy cup of grass, bark, spiders' web; in foliage of tea-tree, paperbark, low to 6 m.
- Eggs
- 2; cream-buff, with band of deeper buff.
- Range & Status
- tropical n. and ne. Aust.: from w. Kimberley (WA), through Top End (NT), Gulf coast and C. York Pen. (Q), s. to c. Cooktown; inland to Victoria R. Downs (NT)-Mt Isa-Charters Towers (Q). Common. Blossom-nomad.
