Macleay's Honeyeater
Xanthotis macleayanus· 吸蜜鸟科(2 photos)
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Macleay's Honeyeater
20 cm. Unusual stocky, slightly scruffy honeyeater with largish bill, short tail: patch of bare buff skin around eye, yellowish at distance. Cap black, plumage grey and ochre, with plentiful yellow-white streaks; undertail-coverts deep grey; legs blue-grey. Immature: duller. Singles, pairs: movements deliberate; climbs trunks, vine tangles; acrobatic at blossoming eucalypts, umbrella trees; feeds on insects, oranges, mandarins, berries in orchards, gardens; bird tables.
- Similar Species
- Tawny-breasted Honeyeater.
- Voice
- brisk, rollicking 'pchee, cherreep, pchee cherreep' or 'a free TV, a free TV', differing locally.
- Habitat
- rainforest margins; vegetation on watercourses; paperbarks; blossoming eucalypt forests, woodlands; orchards, gardens.
- Breeding
- Oct.-Jan.
- Nest
- cup of palm-fibre, leaves, bark- hreds, spiders' web; low, to high in canopy.
- Eggs
- 2; pinkish buff, spotted red, chestnut with lilac, dark-grey markings.
- Range & Status
- ne. Q: from Cooktown coastally s. to Mt Spec NP near Townsville; lowlands to highland rainforests, incl. Atherton Tableland. Common. Probably sedentary.
