Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Singing Honeyeater (Lichenostomus virescens) - HBW 13, p. 598
French:
Méliphage chanteur
German: Pfeifhonigfresser
Spanish:
Mielero Cantarín
Other common names: Black-faced/Large-striped/Forrest’s
Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Melithreptus
virescens Vieillot, 1817, Nouvelle Hollande = Shark Bay, Western
Australia.
Forms
a superspecies with L. versicolor and L. fasciogularis;
once considered conspecific with former. Races intergrade where they
meet: cooperi intergrades with forresti in N Northern
Territory; forresti intergrades with sonorus in narrow
band from N Queensland (E drainage of Gulf of Carpentaria) S through
C Cooper Creek Drainage to N Flinders Ranges and Gawler Ranges (South
Australia), and with nominate from W Western Australia (between North
West Cape and Shark Bay) E to W Eyre Peninsula (South Australia); in
S South Australia, nominate, .. View all taxonomy...
Taxonomy: Melithreptus
virescens Vieillot, 1817, Nouvelle Hollande = Shark Bay, Western
Australia.
Forms a superspecies with L. versicolor and L. fasciogularis; once considered conspecific with former. Races intergrade where they meet: cooperi intergrades with forresti in N Northern Territory; forresti intergrades with sonorus in narrow band from N Queensland (E drainage of Gulf of Carpentaria) S through C Cooper Creek Drainage to N Flinders Ranges and Gawler Ranges (South Australia), and with nominate from W Western Australia (between North West Cape and Shark Bay) E to W Eyre Peninsula (South Australia); in S South Australia, nominate, forresti and sonorus overlap in three-way melange SW of Gawler Ranges. Proposed race insularis (from Rottnest I, off Perth, in Western Australia) considered indistinguishable from nominate, and westwoodia (Westwood, in S Queensland) synonymized with sonorus. Four subspecies recognized.
Forms a superspecies with L. versicolor and L. fasciogularis; once considered conspecific with former. Races intergrade where they meet: cooperi intergrades with forresti in N Northern Territory; forresti intergrades with sonorus in narrow band from N Queensland (E drainage of Gulf of Carpentaria) S through C Cooper Creek Drainage to N Flinders Ranges and Gawler Ranges (South Australia), and with nominate from W Western Australia (between North West Cape and Shark Bay) E to W Eyre Peninsula (South Australia); in S South Australia, nominate, forresti and sonorus overlap in three-way melange SW of Gawler Ranges. Proposed race insularis (from Rottnest I, off Perth, in Western Australia) considered indistinguishable from nominate, and westwoodia (Westwood, in S Queensland) synonymized with sonorus. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- cooperi (Mathews, 1912) - Tiwi Is (Bathurst I, Melville I) and N Northern Territory (S to Victoria R and SW Gulf of Carpentaria, including Groote Eylandt and Sir Edward Pellew Is), in N Australia.
- forresti (Ingram, 1906) - Western Australia from Kimberley Division S to Shark Bay and Wheatbelt, E to SE Gulf of Carpentaria and NC Queensland, South Australia (N Eyre Peninsula and N Flinders Ranges) and NW New South Wales.
- sonorus (Gould, 1841) - CN Queensland (Burdekin-Flinders rivers to Dawson-Mackenzie Basin) S, W of Great Divide, to SE South Australia (E from Eyre Peninsula) and W Victoria (W of Westernport Bay).
- virescens (Vieillot, 1817) - coastal and subcoastal SW & S Western Australia, from Carnarvon-Shark Bay S (including Rottnest I) to SW capes (absent from wetter far SW), inland to Wheatbelt, and E to SC South Australia (E to W Eyre Peninsula).
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A bird perched on a bush, then flying away Locality Penrice Saltfields, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 12 April 2006 5 years ago 27 sec 4 -
Two chicks of different ages in the nest, soft peeps from chick on right and occasional calls from adult in background Locality Greenfields Wetlands, Greenfields, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Philip Griffin 17 January 2004 7 years ago 17 sec 3.8 -
An adult bird perched on a branch and flying away Locality Magazine Road wetlands, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 17 September 2007 4 years ago 8 sec 3.8 -
A bird perched on a bush, preening. Locality Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp sonorus)
Josep del Hoyo 31 October 2009 1 year ago 25 sec 3.3 -
A bird preening. Locality Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp sonorus)
Josep del Hoyo 31 October 2009 1 year ago 27 sec 3.3 -
A bird perched on a dead branch. Locality Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia (ssp sonorus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 October 2009 1 year ago 30 sec 3.3
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Portrait of Singing honeyeater in Illawarra Flame Tree.
Locality Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 13 July 2011 19 weeks ago 4.4 -
Perched on a tree stump, singing.
Locality Goolwa, South Australia, Australia
Peter Strauss 12 March 2011 48 weeks ago 4 -
feeding on flower
Locality Northern Territory, Australia (ssp cooperi)
Georges Olioso 16 September 2007 2 years ago 3.8 -
Singing honeyeater.
Locality White Gum Valley, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 14 October 2010 1 year ago 3.8 -
Singing Honeyeater feeding on fruit
Locality Mataranka, Northern Territory, Australia
Rhonda Hansch 25 July 2008 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.7 -
Perched
Locality Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 6 June 2008 47 weeks ago 3.4
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Various calls of one bird Locality Waikerie, South Australia, Australia
(ssp sonoru)
Peter Waanders 14 March 2010 1 year ago 4
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