Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Description:

Characterised by the distinctive yellow face stripe, this medium sized honeyeater from Australia is a common sight in gardens where flowering shrubs are blooming throughout the year. The beak is slightly down curved, feather colouring is mostly a soft grey, darker on wings and tail with olive green on wings and tail, face stripe is bright yellow edged in black and small white spot well behind and above eye. Feeds on nectar, pollen, insects, fruit, seeds.

Habitat:

Found throughout eastern Australia in many habitats especially where flowering plant species occur, highly nomadic species and migrates at particular times of the year in large flocks. This one on farm dam heavily vegetated all around and near to blossoming banksia trees.

Notes:

Birds were dipping into the water to refresh themselves and clean off any unwanted nectar from feathers. Large flocks of mixed honeyeater species can be seen at this time of year (Autumn) migrating north. As many of them are so small and fly above canopy height often the only way you know they are flying over in flocks is the sound of high pitched cheeping and twittering.