Blue-faced Honeyeater
Entomyzon cyanotis· 吸蜜鸟科(3 photos)
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Blue-faced Honeyeater
Entomyzon cyanotis includes White-quilled Honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis albipennis.
30-32 cm. Note striking two-tone blue facial skin, yellow-white eye; crown/nape black, with white nape-band; upperparts olive-green; underparts white, with dusky black bib. Birds from ne. Q to n. WA, incl. race albipennis, show white on base of primaries in flight. Immature: face olive-green; bib grey. Pairs, parties, flocks: aggressive; forages in foliage, blossoms, fruit; flight undulating.
- Voice
- repeated 'woik', or 'queet?'; softer 'hwit, hwit'.
- Habitat
- open forests, woodlands, scrubs; pandanus, paperbarks, watercourses, farmlands, roadsides, bananas, orchards, golf courses, parks, gardens.
- Breeding
- June-Jan.
- Nest
- deep cup of bark, rootlets, grass, spiders' web; lined with plant down, hair; or bulky twigs; in bark-debris, fork, 3-10 m high; or old nest of babbler, Magpie-lark, Apostlebird, or in hole in nest of tree termites.
- Eggs
- 2-3; buff-pink/salmon-pink, spotted red-brown, purplish red.
- Range & Status
- coastal n. and e. Aust.: from Kimberley (WA) to Myall Lakes (NSW); inland s. to Bendigo-Dunolly (Vic.) and w. on Murray R. to c. Morgan, s. to Naracoorte, casual w. to Langhorne Ck. Common n. Aust., patchy in se. Sedentary; locally migratory. Also s. PNG.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Entomyzon cyanotis albipennis 2. Entomyzon cyanotis griseigularis 3. Entomyzon cyanotis cyanotis
