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Noisy miner

Manorina melanocephala

Description:

The Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) is a bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae and is endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia. This miner is a grey bird, with a black head, orange-yellow beak and feet, a distinctive yellow patch behind the eye and white tips on the tail feathers. Males, females and juveniles are similar in appearance, though young birds are a brownish-grey. As the common name suggests, the Noisy Miner is a vocal species with a large range of songs, calls, scoldings and alarms, and almost constant vocalizations particularly from young birds. - Wikipedia

Habitat:

Primarily dry, open eucalypt forests without understory shrubs. However it is it is colonizing an ever-increasing range of human-dominated habitats.

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1 Comment

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

(Manorina melanocephala)

emilyjem
Spotted by
emilyjem

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Nov 5, 2012
Submitted on Nov 5, 2012

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