White-plumed honeyeater
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| At Sundown National Park, Queensland, Australia | |
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| Species: | P. penicillatus
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| Ptilotula penicillatus (Gould, 1837)
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The white-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula penicillatus) is a bird native to Australia. It is yellow above and paler beneath, with a black and white line on the sides of its neck. The white neck band of a white-plumed honeyeater is its most prominent feature, the rest of the feathers being shades of green and buff. Juveniles have a pinkish orange beak that darkens to black in adults. Honeyeaters feed on nectar and insects and their nest is a small cup nest in a tree. The size of an average white-plumed honeyeater is approximately 19 cm.
White-plumed honeyeaters are common around water and are often seen in backyards and suburbs with vegetation cover.[2]
The white-plumed honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus but was moved to Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.[3][4]
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The cup nest -
Nest with two eggs
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Lichenostomus-penicillatus
- ^ Nyári, Á.S.; Joseph, L. (2011). "Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and historical development of Australo–Papuan bird communities". Emu. 111: 202–211. doi:10.1071/mu10047.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Honeyeaters". World Bird List Version 6.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
