LESSER HONEYGUIDE

441         LESSER HONEYGUIDE         Indicator minor

South Africa           (108)

15 cm. Range across north, down east, and across south of Southern Africa, particularly eastern third. Found in forest, woodland, and dense savanna, gardens.

PAINTED HONEYEATER

Photographed near Condobolin, NSW, December 2014

440        PAINTED HONEYEATER        Grantiella picta

Australia          (301)

Range is inland south-east Australia. Habitat subtropical or tropical dry forests, particularly misltoe in eucalyptus forest/woodlands, blackbox on watercourses, box-ironbark-yellow gum woodlands, paperbarks, casuarinas, mulga and the acacias, farmland. Highly nomadic, considered endangered, habitat deprivation.