Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) - HBW 13
Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris)
French:
Méliphage à bec grêle
German: Rotnacken-Honigfresser
Spanish: Picoespina Oriental
Other common names: (Victorian) Spinebill,
Slender-billed/Spinebill/Spine-billed Honeyeater; Tasmanian
Honeyeater (dubius)
Taxonomy: Certhia
tenuirostris Latham, 1801, Nova Hollandia = region of Port
Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.
Forms
a superspecies with A. superciliosus. Proposed races
trochiloides (from Bunya Mts, in SE Queensland) and loftyi
(Mt Lofty, in S Australia) considered synonyms of nominate, and
regius (King I, in Bass Strait) synonymized with dubius.
Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- cairnsensis Mathews, 1912 - NE Queensland (uplands of Atherton, Carbine and Windsor Tablelands), in NE Australia.
- tenuirostris (Latham, 1801) - coastal and subcoastal E & SE Australia from Queensland (Clarke Range) S, inland to W slopes of Great Divide, to Victoria and SE South Australia.
- halmaturinus A. G. Campbell, 1906 - Mt Lofty Ranges and S Flinders Ranges, Adelaide Plain and Kangaroo I, in South Australia.
- dubius Gould, 1837 - Tasmania and islands in Bass Strait.
- Least Concern
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A bird perched on a branch and flicking it's tongue Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia (ssp tenuirostris)
Nick Talbot 24 June 2005 2 years ago 21 sec 4.7 -
A bird feeding on nectar, first flying and then perched Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia (ssp tenuirostris)
Rigdon Currie 31 October 2004 2 years ago 13 sec 4.3 -
A bird perched on a branch, then flying away Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia (ssp tenuirostris)
Nick Talbot 24 June 2005 2 years ago 1 sec 3.8 -
A bird on a bush, feeding on nectar O'Reilly's, Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia (ssp tenuirostris)
Keith Blomerley 12 November 2003 2 years ago 7 sec 3.8 -
An immature perching on metal frame New Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (ssp tenuirostris)
Nick Talbot 18 December 2005 14 weeks ago 12 sec 3.7 -
A bird preening in a tree and then flying away. New Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (ssp tenuirostris)
Nick Talbot 18 December 2005 14 weeks ago 5 sec 3.3
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male in bush Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Michael Retter 1 October 2009 14 weeks ago 3
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Calling while foraging in a tree Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Joe Angseesing 25 February 2009 6 weeks ago 2
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