#honeyeater

[herpsandbirds]

Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis), family Meliphagidae, order Passeriformes, Far North QLD, Australia

photograph by Mark Pronger

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Emu Bay , Honeyeater - Grietje Postma , 2025.

Dutch , b. 1961 -

Woodcut , 14 x 14 cm. 25 x 25 cm. framed Ed. of 29

[ljinghamartist]

Blue-faced honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis), 2025. Watercolour on paper.

[birdstudies]

March 10, 2026 - Brown-headed Honeyeater (Melithreptus brevirostris) Found in parts of southern and eastern Australia, these honeyeaters live in forests, woodlands, and shrublands. Foraging in small flocks, they eat arthropods, nectar, sugary liquids and structures produced by insects and plants, and sometimes the eggs of other birds. They build deep cup-shaped nests from bark, grass, hair, fur, wool, spider webs and egg sacs, feathers, and plant down usually in trees or tall shrubs. Both parents incubate the clutches of two or three eggs and feed the chicks, sometimes with the help of other adults.

[platypu]

yeah facebook is terrible but sometimes you stumble across pure gold. there are dream animals i want to see in the wild and there will be posts like

ma'am that is the critically endangered regent honeyeater. There are less than 300 of them left in the wild

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Fledgling Red Wattlebird, Perth WA.

[reasonsforhope]

Farmers, conservationists cheer after 750,000 trees planted to help save threatened native bird

Since the Regent Honeyeater Project kicked off in the 1990s, tens of thousands of volunteers have helped to regenerate farmland in order to

"In short:

Victorian farmers and volunteers have planted 750,000 trees to restore habitat for a critically endangered bird.

The Regent Honeyeater Project has brought together volunteers from all walks of life since it was launched in the 1990s.

What's next?

An ornithologist says the project is working wonders for the species and other wildlife.

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John Paul Murphy is not an ecologist, but he knows a thing or two about trees.

The young cattle farmer from Winton in north-east Victoria has helped plant more than 750,000 trees as part of the Regent Honeyeater Project.

"Our involvement as a family goes back to the early 1990s, when the project first kicked off," Mr Murphy said.

The regent honeyeater is a critically endangered bird known for its black-and-bright-yellow colouring.

"Back in the day, millions of these birds would darken the sky from Adelaide up to Queensland," ornithologist Maggie Watson said.

"They're quite large compared to other honeyeaters, are highly nectar-dependent, and are one of the main pollinators of eucalypt trees."

Dr Watson, based in Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, said habitat fragmentation was a major reason the bird was threatened.

"When people started clearing farmland as part of colonisation in the 1800s, they removed all the productive, nectar-producing trees," she said.

"So that essentially wiped out the regent honeyeater's main food-base."

'Great for all wildlife'

Benalla cattle farmer and Regent Honeyeater Project president Rob Richardson said agriculture had claimed its share of the environment.

"We've destroyed a lot of habitat to create grazing and cropping land to the point where there are less than 500 wild regent honeyeaters left in Australia," he said.

"So now we're trying to restore the balance.

"We propagate all the trees in our plant nursery, and then plant them across the landscape to establish vegetation corridors."

Dr Watson said the project would significantly benefit the regent honeyeater population.

"The birds need to have 'roads' to get to flowering trees like eucalypts, and those roads happen to be other trees — so the more you plant, the better," she said.

"Tackling habitat fragmentation is great for all wildlife."

Huge volunteer effort

Mr Richardson said local volunteers were at the heart of the project.

"Over the last 30 years we've had many farmers donate land to be revegetated and over 40,000 volunteers help plant all the trees," he said.

Mr Murphy said the volunteers came from all walks of life.

"At our planting days, I've met university students, doctors, lawyers, biologists … and many of them come back year after year," he said.

Mr Murphy said it was nice to have a chance to get to know with people he may not otherwise have met.

"Farming can be pretty isolating," he said.

"But when you're planting, learning, and just getting your hands dirty together, the conversations you have are really unique.""

-via ABC News Australia, December 2, 2024

[vintagewildlife]

Spinebill honeyeater By: M. K. Morcombe From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands 1972