Yellow Honeyeater
Stomiopera flava· 吸蜜鸟科(2 photos)
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Yellow Honeyeater
17.5 cm. Plump yellow-green honeyeater with slight dark line through eye; yellowish eyebrow and facial stripe. Immature: greener. Singles, pairs: placid; movements jerky. Feeds in blossoms, foliage; orchards, gardens for soft fruits. Flight undulating, with distinctive 'flop-flop' of wings.
- Voice
- clear, emphatic 'whee-a, whee-a, whee-a', with a short rattle; metallic 'tut-tut-tut'; scolding rattle, like House Sparrow; peevish, scratchy 'jab!'.
- Habitat
- watercourse vegetation, pandanus, paperbarks, eucalypt woodlands, rainforest margins, tropical scrubs, mangroves, orchards, gardens, urban areas.
- Breeding
- Sept.-Feb.
- Nest
- shallow cup of bark, grass, palm-fibre, spiders' web; 1-10 m high in leafy shrub or tree; in orchard, garden.
- Eggs
- 2; pale to deep pink, spotted, blotched red-brown, chestnut, purplish grey.
- Range & Status
- ne. Q: from Flinders R. on Gulf coast s. to Mt Isa, n. to C. York (Jardine R.); s. on e. coast to c. Broad Sound; inland on Tablelands, mostly below 450 m. Patchy; fairly common. Sedentary.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Stomiopera flava flava 2. Stomiopera flava addenda
