New Holland Honeyeater
Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
Family: Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters, 74 species in Australia)
Size: 16-19 cm
Distribution: Within about 300 km of the coasts of NSW, Eastern SA, southermost QLD, southwest WA. Most of VIC and TAS.
Status: Common
Habitat: Coastal heaths, woodlands.
References: Simpson and Day, Reader's Digest
The New Holland Honeyeater is a common bird in the Blue Mountains, especially the Upper Blue Mountains. They are small and distinctive in appearance, and often seen in gardens where there are some native nectar-bearing plants such as bottlebrushes.
There is also a White-cheeked Honeyeater, which looks very similar except it has white cheeks.
Photo: Blaxland, Blue Mountains NSW
Artwork: John Gould, 'The Birds of Australia', 1848. Original Scanned Image.
Some Birdwatching Resources
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Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, Peter Slater, Pat Slater and Raoul Slater. This is a smaller field guide, and its advantage is it is easy to carry around. Its size is 21.3 x 11.4 x 2.8 centimetres, or 8.4 x 4.5 x 1.1 inches in the old scale. So it is a good one to get if you want to have your field guide with you out in the field. Unlike most of the field guides it also has illustrations of the eggs of all the birds that breed in Australia. It has very good reviews on Amazon.
Click here to purchase from Australia $29.49 AUD
Click here to purchase from Amazon (about $20 USD) |
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Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of Australia David Hollands. A blend of writing and photography with an essay on each of the 24 species of eagles, hawks and falcons in Australia.
Click here to purchase from Australia $44.49 AUD |
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