Colours
Distinguishing features
it is olive brown above and buff below, with a brown head, nape and throat, with a cream or orange patch of bare skin over the eye and a white crescent-shaped patch on the nape. The legs and feet are orange. (Wikipedia)
Size
- From 13 cm to 15 cm (Length of specimen)
Wingspan
- Wingspan data is not yet available.
Synonyms
Distribution
©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution
Distribution and habitat preferences
The Brown-headed Honeyeater ranges from central-southern Queensland, down through central and eastern New South Wales (though generally west of the Great Dividing Range), across Victoria and into eastern South Australia, where it is found in the Flinders Ranges and around the lower Murray River region. It occurs in southern Western Australia.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. (Wikipedia)
Audio recordings
Recorded at Mogo Creek, Yengo National Park, New South Wales in Australia.
© Eliot Miller
(source)
Recorded at Mogo Creek, Yengo National Park, New South Wales in Australia.
© Eliot Miller
(source)
Diet
Insects form the bulk of the diet. It forages by probing in bark of trunks and branches of trees
