Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops) - HBW 13, p. 659
French: Méliphage à calotte fauve
German: Goldscheitel-Honigfresser
Spanish: Mielero Coronado
Other common names: Fulvous-breasted/Fulvous-fronted Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Certhia melanops Latham, 1801, Nova Wallia Australi = New South Wales, Australia.
Spelling of genus name sometimes emended to Glyciphila; currently awaiting official decision from ICZN. Until recently, genus subsumed in Phylidonyris. Formerly, birds from Kangaroo I were separated as race braba and those from Bass Strait islands and E Tasmania as crassirostris, but no significant differences from mainland birds. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- melanops ( Latham, 1801) - SW Western Australia (S from Kalbarri-Geraldton), E across S Australia (largely absent Nullarbor coast and Nullarbor Plain) to SE South Australia including Kangaroo I (and extending N through Flinders Ranges to Wilpena Pound), Victoria, and E coast of New South Wales (except far NE); also islands in Bass Strait (King I, Hunter Is, Furneaux Group; historical records in Kent Group), and E Tasmania.
- chelidonia Schodde & Mason, 1999 - NW, W & SW coasts of Tasmania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a bush, moving. Locality Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia (ssp melanops)
Josep del Hoyo 17 October 2009 3 years ago 27 sec 4.3 -
A bird inside a bush, preening. Locality Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia (ssp melanops)
Josep del Hoyo 17 October 2009 3 years ago 48 sec 3.6 -
A perched bird in heavy fog. Locality Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp melanops)
Josep del Hoyo 31 October 2009 3 years ago 35 sec 3.2 -
several birds bathing in puddle in late afternoon Locality Moore River National Park, Western Australia, Australia
Janine Duffy 24 June 2012 39 weeks ago 23 sec 2.3
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Tawny-crowned Honeyeater perched on a bush
Locality Yuraygir National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 1 September 2012 32 weeks ago 3.3 -
Perched in a bush
Locality Monarto Conservation Park, Monarto, South Australia, Australia
Peter Strauss 1 January 2010 2 years ago 3.3 -
Tawny-crowned Honeyeater perched on a shrub
Locality Yuraygir National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Rhonda Hansch 1 September 2012 15 weeks ago 3 -
Tawny-crowned Honeyeater perched
Locality Yuraygir National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Rhonda Hansch 3 June 2006 1 year ago 2.7 -
Foraging for ants
Locality Yuraygir National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 3 June 2006 2 years ago 2.2 -
on twig
Locality Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia (ssp melanops)
Michael Retter 1 October 2009 3 years ago 2
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