Showing posts with label Grantiella picta. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 4, 2014

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.