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Blue-faced Honeyeater
Entomyzon cyanotis
-38.1674, 145.113
Field Notes
Description:
A large bird with a beautiful olive-green back and gleaming
white front and belly. A black crown had a fleck of white on either side. Neck and throat were also black with a band extending down the front. The striking feature is the skin around the eyes which is a bright blue, giving the bird it's common name. This blue patch was paler in juveniles.
Habitat:
Suburban garden near coastal wetlands.
Notes:
A flock of these birds have been regular visitors to the paperbark tree in the back garden where they feed off the insects under the bark. <br> I had to entice them with some oats just to get a photo. They seem quite unperturbed by the other noisy birds like the miners and magpies. <br> These birds are seen in most of Australia in open woodlands close to coastal regions. They refurbish abandoned nests of other birds, relining them before laying eggs. Both parents care for their young. <br> Family: Meliphagidae. <br> Photos also show a magpie and crested pigeon.
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