Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) - HBW 13, p. 620
French: Méliphage à gouttelettes
German: Zimtflügel-Honigfresser
Spanish: Mielero Alirrufo
Other common names: Brush/Mock Wattlebird, Brush Mockbird, Mocker, Mockingbird
Taxonomy: Merops chrysopterus Latham, 1801, Nova Hollandia = Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.
Often considered conspecific with A. lunulata. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- chrysoptera (Latham, 1801) - coastal SE Australia on and E of tablelands of Great Divide from SE Queensland (Dawes Range) S, including Fraser I, Stradbroke I and other islands, to SE Victoria, and W through SE South Australia to Adelaide.
- halmaturina (Mathews, 1912) - Kangaroo I, off South Australia.
- tasmanica (Mathews, 1912) - N & E Tasmania (and scattered records in SW & W and inland).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perching in a tree and calling Locality Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (ssp chrysoptera)
Nick Talbot 1 November 2009 3 years ago 16 sec 3 -
A bird perched in a tree stretching its wings and calling. Locality Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (ssp chrysoptera)
Nick Talbot 1 November 2009 3 years ago 15 sec 3
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Little Wattlebird
Locality Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
magnetocsl 8 July 2011 1 year ago 3.4 -
Little Wattlebird
Locality Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
RhinoAuklet107 4 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3 -
Little Wattlebird
Locality Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
RhinoAuklet107 4 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3 -
A Little Wattlebird about to catch an insect in flight.
Locality Lesmurdie, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 14 June 2012 49 weeks ago 3 -
Perched on edge of birdbath
Locality St Kilda, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Peter Strauss 27 February 2010 2 years ago 3 -
In a garden, rural area
Locality Central Mangrove, New South Wales, Australia (ssp chrysoptera)
Howard Banwell 2 March 2009 3 years ago 3
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Calls of one bird. Locality Inskip Point, Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia
(ssp chrysoptera)
Josep del Hoyo 16 October 2010 2 years ago 5 -
A bird singing briefly. Locality Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 October 2009 2 years ago 4 -
A bird calling at dawn. Locality Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(ssp chrysoptera)
Nick Talbot 23 December 2011 1 year ago 3 -
Calling as it forages through a tree Locality Burnie, Tasmania, Australia
(ssp tasmanica)
Joe Angseesing 23 February 2009 3 years ago 3
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