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Brown Honeyeater

Lichmera indistincta

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Description:

You have your bath now - I've had mine! Small brown coloured honeyeater with shades of grey/brown darker on top and lighter grey on belly olive patches on wings and tail, small yellow tuft behind each eye, thin yellow lining on beak near eyes, long curved black beak. Feeds on nectar and insects. Nomadic, following known flowering of plants.

Habitat:

Found throughout much of Australia except the very far south and arid inland. This one in a small flock bathing in water troughs on a hot dry late spring afternoon.

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PublishedMay 16, 2014

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