Grey-headed Honeyeater
Ptilotula keartlandi· 吸蜜鸟科(2 photos)
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Grey-headed Honeyeater
15-16 cm. Crown clear-grey; underparts pale lemon, lightly streaked fawn; blackish mask broadens to dusky-grey patch on ear-coverts, margined below by broad, upswept yellow neck-plume. Pairs, parties; colonial; sedate.
- Voice
- 'chee-toyt, chee-toyt'; mellow 'chickowee'; in flight, peevish 'check, check, check'. Alarm-call: weak alarm clock trill.
- Habitat
- rugged, lightly wooded hillsides/gorges above watercourses; often with spinifex. In parts, e.g. Mt Olga (NT) and Gregory R. (Q), occupies watercourse habitat. Also lowland woodlands, mallee, mulga, desert-oaks; blossoming grevilleas, hakeas, eremophilas.
- Breeding
- July-Oct.
- Nest
- cup of fine bark-strips, plant down, spiders' web; in slender fork, low shrub.
- Eggs
- 2; whitish, pale pink, spotted, blotched pale brown to reddish.
- Range & Status
- n. inland Aust.: e. to c. Opalton (Q), n. to c. Burketown (Q), Borroloola-Roper R. (NT), s. Kimberley (WA), s. to c. Cunnamulla (Q), Oodnadatta-Musgrave Ras. (SA), Giles-Carnarvon Ras. (WA). Sedentary; seasonally nomadic.
