Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Strong-billed Honeyeater (Melithreptus validirostris) - HBW 13, p. 673
French:
Méliphage à bec fort
German: Starkschnabel-Honigschmecker
Spanish: Mielero Picudo
Other common names: Black-capped Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Haematops
validirostris Gould, 1837, Van Diemen’s Land = Tasmania.
Forms
a superspecies with M. gularis. Birds from King I (in Bass
Strait) described as race kingi, but differences from those
elsewhere in range appear too trivial to warrant naming of
geographical races. Monotypic.
Distribution: Islands in Bass Strait (King I, Flinders I) and Tasmania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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prying bark away to extra food Locality Dennes Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 23 January 2012 16 weeks ago 1 min 16 sec 3 -
small group in tree top, fly off Locality Loongana Mountain Valley Wilderness, Loongana, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 21 January 2012 17 weeks ago 34 sec 2.7 -
feeding on tree trunk, perches up, and flies; at Bruny Island Main Road, near Dennes Point. Locality Dennes Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 23 January 2012 16 weeks ago 21 sec 2.5
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Strong-billed Honeyeater perched
Locality Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
Rhonda Hansch 6 February 2007 17 weeks ago 3.4 -
Perched
Locality Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 6 February 2007 1 year ago 3 -
feeding on a Eucalypt in its characterisitic creeperlike fashion; sea level
Locality Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Michael Retter 4 November 2009 2 years ago 2.5
- No sound recordings available yet
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