Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta) - HBW 13, p. 661
French:
Méliphage brunâtre
German: Braunhonigfresser
Spanish:
Mielero Pardo
Other common names: Australian Brown/Least/Warbling Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Meliphaga
indistincta Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, King George Sound, south
Western Australia.
Forms
a superspecies with L. limbata and L. incana. Race
ocularis intergrades with nominate through SE Gulf of
Carpentaria Drainage. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- nupta (Stresemann, 1912) - Aru Is.
- melvillensis (Mathews, 1912) - Tiwi Is (Bathurst I, Melville I), off N Northern Territory (N Australia).
- indistincta (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) - Western Australia (E to fringes of deserts and, in S, along coastal fringe S of Nullarbor Plain to about Eyre) and Northern Territory (S to C ranges) E to SE Gulf of Carpentaria and NW Queensland (Selwyn Range), and CN South Australia.
- ocularis (Gould, 1838) - S New Guinea (S Trans-Fly region, including around Merauke, Bensbach R and L Daviambu), Saibai I (in N Torres Strait) and E Australia from Cape York Peninsula S to SW Queensland and CN & CE New South Wales (S to around Sydney).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perching on a twig and calling. It then briefly watches a flying bug and flicks its tounge out. Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 13 August 2009 2 years ago 24 sec 4.3 -
A bird perching on a twig and calling. Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 13 August 2009 2 years ago 11 sec 4.3 -
A bird perched on a twig then flying away. Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 13 August 2009 2 years ago 12 sec 4.2 -
An adult feeding on a flower and flying away Locality Samsonvale, Queensland, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Tom Tarrant 31 March 1995 7 years ago 25 sec 4.1 -
An adult feeding on a flower Locality Samsonvale, Queensland, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Tom Tarrant 31 March 1995 7 years ago 32 sec 3.9 -
A bird drinking nectar from flowers then flying away Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 23 April 2006 5 years ago 2 sec 3.9
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Bird on banksia leaf
Locality Port of Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 September 2011 33 weeks ago 4.5 -
Brown Honeyeater on native Grevilea shrub
Locality Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 July 2010 1 year ago 4.3 -
Singing adult Brown Honeyeater amongst native Grevilea
Locality Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 June 2010 1 year ago 4.2 -
Brown honeyeater foraging in native shrub garden.
Locality Bicton, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 10 July 2011 42 weeks ago 4 -
Brown Honeyeater feeding on a Flame tree
Locality Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2010 1 year ago 4 -
Adult bird loafing in tree.
Locality Lake Monger, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Graham Little 16 October 2009 2 years ago 3.6
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