My first White-plumed Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeaters are common and wide-spread, according to my bird book, but this is the first one I’ve identified. I spotted it at Mary Flynn Campground on the Turon River in New South Wales. It’s an unassuming little bird, with plumage of soft greys and yellows, and quite large eyes relatively speaking.
In the photo, below the yellow face, you can just make out the white stripe that gives the bird the name “white-plumed”. Personally, I’d expected a grander plume to match the name, but there you go.
Common name: White-plumed Honeyeater
Scientific name: Lichenostomus penicillatus
Approximate length: 15-17 cm
Date spotted: 17 May 2025 (autumn)
Location: Mary Flynn Campground on the Turon River, NSW, Australia: 33°04’46.6″S 149°23’55.6″E
#australia #birds #birdwatching #Honeyeater #WhitePlumedHoneyeater
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Australian native bird - Red Wattlebird 🐦
https://jan-matson.pixels.com/featured/australian-native-bird-red-wattlebird-jan-matson.html
Painting of a Red Wattlebird.
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Uploading some of my observation backlog to #iNaturalist this weekend, and due to all the days I've been too tired to go out after work and just quickly snapped photos of the birds outside my window, I'm now the top observer of the blue-faced honeyeater. Here's the best one I've taken that I've stumbled on so far!
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And here are some of the birds from the #Queensland trip.
Little #Kingfisher at the saltwater lagoon in Centenary Lakes Park in Cairns
Papuan #Frogmouth in Centenary Lakes Park
Brown-backed #Honeyeater at Cattana Wetlands just outside Cairns
#Chowchilla (male) at Lake Eacham
#Bloomscrolling #grevillea
#birdsofmastodon #honeyeater #Frog.
A first In the Olympic pool / high jumping wallaby
Friends of Kororoit Creek
National Tree Day
🕙 10am to 2pm, Sunday 28 August
📍 The Bug Rug, entry at 59 Sanders Ave, West Sunshine
#BirdsofMastodon #honeyeater #shrike
#bluewren #KororoitCreek
Graceful #honeyeater (Meliphaga gracilis imitatrix) picking berries off Brazilian #nightshade (Solanum seaforthianum)
Photograph: #ABCmyphoto
#Cormorant photo: @samsamljk
#ScrubWren @stumilde_photography
“New Holland” #HoneyEater @vik.d_wildlife
Haha I was playing one of Hearing Beings' field recordings* on my modestly good hifi system in the lounge and partner came in thinking there was a #honeyeater trapped inside the house 😆
* https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/2024-04-14-autumn-evening-eucalyptus-forest-parallel-recordings-usi-pro-fel-clippy?si=292243faa0de47caaf05f6acf49a41d5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
*birds
Photograph:
@birdsofmelbourne
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#bloomscrolling #grevillea #merriCreek
#grevillea #bloomscrolling #birdsofmastodon #regenthoneyeater #honeyeater
Photo: davidongley
Amazing what you see when you’re watching something else! I was photographing Vervet Monkeys at Werribee Zoo when this New Holland Honeyeater landed in the bush next to me. There were no flowers, so I think he was just curious.
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