Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
Gliciphila melanops· 吸蜜鸟科(2 photos)
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Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
16-17 cm. Slender, graceful, long-billed pale brown and white honeyeater: crown creamy-buff, separated by white eyebrow from black mask curving in 'wishbone' down sides of white breast. Juvenile: brownish with buff streaks; throat yellow. Singles, pairs, open companies: sits atop shrubs, dead branches, to watch, sing. Flies pipit-like, low to cover or gracefully far/high, showing cinnamon wing linings.
- Similar Species
- Crescent Honeyeater, Eastern/Western Spinebills.
- Voice
- liquid, fluty, ascending 'a-peer-peer-pee-pee'; shorter, beautiful, liquid, metallic phrases.
- Habitat
- heathlands; stunted banksia, sandplain vegetation; mallee, 'grasstree country', blossoming eucalypt woodlands, regrowth, button-grass woodlands, street trees.
- Breeding
- June-Jan.
- Nest
- untidy cup of grass, bark-strips, spiders' web, plant down, wool; near ground in dense low vegetation.
- Eggs
- 2 (1-4); large, pointed, whitish, blotched chestnut-red at large end.
- Range & Status
- from ne. NSW (Evans Head) to Eyre Pen.-Kangaroo I. (SA), inland to Blue Mts (NSW); coastal e. Vic. to Big Desert NP. Autumn-winter dispersal to w. slopes-Murray Valley-s. Flinders Ras. Resident coastal Tas. In s. WA, widespread w. and s. of Israelite Bay-Norseman-Southern Cross-Murchison R., disperses inland in winter. Fairly common. Sedentary; seasonally nomadic.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Gliciphila melanops melanops 2. Gliciphila melanops chelidonia
