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General Information
Description: The Blue
Faced Honey Eater is a a brightly
coloured, bold and loud bird, found in the bush as well as in town. It grows
to 26cm. The adults have a distinctive blue skin patch around their eyes. It
has a bright olive back with a black head and throat. Its underbody is
white. Young Blue Faced Honey Eaters have a green facial patch.
Habitat: The
Blue Faced Honey Eater is common in open eucalypt
forests, trees along water courses, plantations, clumps of trees around
farms, suburban gardens and parks.
Food:
The Blue Faced Honey
Eater's beak is shaped to allow it to drink nectar from flowers and it
particularly likes the nectar of trees such as the fern-leaved grevillea,
Grevillea pteridifolia. They also eat insects, and fruit.
Breeding:
Blue Faced Honey Eater's lay their egg from
June to January. They often use discarded nests
of other birds e.g. Bab-blers.
Status: Common.
It is found in Northern and Eastern
Australia, also southern New Guinea.
Reference:
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Information - "Wildlife of Greater Brisbane" -
Queensland Museum.
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