Tuesday, May 26, 2015

GREY-HEADED HONEYEATER

Photographed on Barkly Highway near NT/Q border, May 2015
620           GREY-HEADED HONEYEATER              Lichenostomus keartlandi

Australia         (463)

15-16 cm. Found in rugged, lightly wooded hillsides/gorges above watercourses; often with spinifex. Lowland woodlands, mallee, mulga, desert oaks; blossoming grovellers, hakeas, eremophilas. Range: n. inland Aust.: e to c. Opalton (Q), n. to c. Burketown (Q), Borroloola-Roper R. (NT), s. Kimberley (WA), s. to c. Cunnamulla (Q), Oodnadatta-Musgrave Ras. (SA), Giles-Carnarvon (WA).




















Grey-headed Honeyeater on nest, taken at Bowra Station, Queensland September 2015.

2 comments:

  1. a gorgeous final photograph - he is so perfectly suited to his environment

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  2. Beautiful colours in these photos

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