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 3 years ago 24 sec 4.5 -
A bird perching on a twig and calling. Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 13 August 2009 3 years ago 11 sec 4.4 -
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 3 years ago 12 sec 4.3 -
An adult feeding on a flower and flying away Locality Samsonvale, Queensland, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Tom Tarrant 31 March 1995 8 years ago 25 sec 4.2 -
An adult feeding on a flower Locality Samsonvale, Queensland, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Tom Tarrant 31 March 1995 8 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 6 years ago 2 sec 3.9 -
A juvenile bird perching in a banksia tree then moving to another branch. Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 18 August 2012 35 weeks ago 10 sec 3.8 -
A bird perching on a twig and calling before flying away. Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 13 August 2009 3 years ago 26 sec 3.8 -
A bird feeding on flowers. Locality Julatten, Queensland, Australia
Robert Schaefer 28 September 2010 2 years ago 24 sec 3.5 -
Close up of a bird calling from a twig. Locality Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp ocularis)
Nick Talbot 17 September 2010 2 years ago 10 sec 3 -
one visiting a bird bath Locality Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp indistincta)
Martin Kennewell 26 July 2009 3 years ago 14 sec 3
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