Yellow-throated Honeyeater

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Yellow-throated Honeyeater
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Meliphagidae Genus: Lichenostomus Species: L. flavicollis
Binomial name
Lichenostomus flavicollis (Vieillot, 1817)

The Yellow-throated Honeyeater (Lichenostomus flavicollis) is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia's island state of Tasmania.

[edit] Description

The Yellow-throated Honeyeater is a medium sized honeyeater with a relatively long tail. It is an olive green above, with a silver-grey crown, face, and underbody contrasting with a distinctive bright yellow chin and throat. There is a small yellow ear-patch and the wing feathers are outlined with yellow. The bill is black and the eye is a deep ruby red. Females are smaller than males. Young birds are very similar to adults, but duller. Other names are the Green Cherry-picker, Green Dick or Green Linnet.

[edit] Habitat

Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Yellow-throated Honeyeater eating an insect.

Backside of Yellow-throated Honeyeater.

[edit] Source

• BirdLife International 2004. Lichenostomus flavicollis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.
• Birds in Backyards. [http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=290}