Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus) - HBW 13, p. 627
French:
Méliphage modeste
German: Sumpfhonigfresser
Spanish:
Mielero Modesto
Other common names: Modest/Unadorned Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Glyciphila
modesta G. R. Gray, 1858, Aru Islands.
Suggestions
that populations from NE Australia are intermediate between present
species and R. fasciatus are not supported by any studies.
Monotypic.
Distribution: West Papuan Is (Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati); Aru Is; coastal S & SE New Guinea, and also very locally in W Vogelkop (Sorong) and along N coast, with isolated records at MamberamoR, Wewak and Madang; D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago (Goodenough I, Fergusson I); islands of N Torres Strait (including Boigu, Saibai, Daru and Yam); and NE Australia (Cape York Peninsula S to about Aurukun on W coast, and along E coast S to Bowen, with occasional records on islands off E coast).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird moving around in a bush Locality Cairns, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Keith Blomerley 2 November 2003 5 years ago 30 sec 4.3 -
A bird building the nest Locality Centennial Lakes, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 7 August 2007 4 years ago 23 sec 4.2
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A bird perched on a branch.
Locality Julatten, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
David Stowe 1 year ago 4.4 -
Brown-backed Honeyeater perched in a tree
Locality Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Rhonda Hansch 20 July 2009 1 year ago 3.3 -
A bird feeding on nectar
Locality Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Arthur Grosset 20 November 2010 1 year ago 3.3 -
Perched
Locality Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 20 July 2009 2 years ago 3.2 -
A bird working on it's nest
Locality Abattoir Swamp Environmental Park, Julatten, Queensland, Australia
steve dillinger 7 December 2007 3 years ago 3 -
On a branch
Locality Daintree, Queensland, Australia
Guy Poisson 12 November 2005 2 years ago 1.8
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