Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (Lichenostomus ornatus) - HBW 13, p. 606
French:
Méliphage orné
German: Gelbscheitel-Honigfresser
Spanish:
Mielero Adornado
Other common names: Graceful/Mallee Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Ptilotis
ornatus Gould, 1838, Swan River, south-west Western Australia.
Forms
a species group with L. plumulus, L. fuscus, L.
flavescens and L. penicillatus. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Australia (mostly S of 30° S but largely excluding far SW) E to Eyre Bird Observatory (scattered records N of this range), and from E Nullarbor Plain and S Great Victoria Desert E in South Australia (including Eyre Peninsula, Flinders Ranges) to The Coorong and Murray-Mallee and to NW & NC Victoria and C New South Wales.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two birds perched on different branches Locality Gluepot Nature Reserve, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Geoffrey Dabb 30 September 2004 5 years ago 41 sec 4.5 -
A bird drinking Locality Gluepot Nature Reserve, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Geoffrey Dabb 30 September 2004 5 years ago 13 sec 4.1 -
A frontal and dorsal view of a bird perched. Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2009 1 year ago 24 sec 3.6 -
A slow motioned shot of a bird on a branch Locality Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Rigdon Currie 30 September 2002 3 years ago 8 sec 2.8
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Perched on a branch deep in mallee scrub
Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia
Ian Barker 9 March 2012 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 4 -
Yellow-plumed honeyeater photographed in flowering eucalypt in which it was feeding
Locality Dryandra Woodland, Western Australia, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 5 August 2009 2 years ago 4 -
in tree
Locality Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Michael Retter 1 October 2009 2 years ago 2
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