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Question on New Holland Honeyeater

To: "'Philip Veerman'" <>, "'kym bradley'" <>, <>
Subject: Question on New Holland Honeyeater
From: "Margaret Leggoe" <>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:50:40 +1000

Possibly it is pollen on the white feathers above the nose.  I have seen that, but in spring time when there were a lot of flowers around.

Margaret Leggoe

 

From: Philip Veerman [
Sent: Friday, 28 June 2013 9:41 PM
To: 'kym bradley';
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Question on New Holland Honeyeater

 

I can't open the photos but the answer is the in adults, the sexes look the same with neither having a yellow face. HANZAB mentions only sex difference is that females may be smaller than males. Honeyeaters often have their face stained yellow from pollen. So my guess is it is that. If you have a pair, statistical likelihood is one is female and one male.

 

Philip 

 

-----Original Message-----From: kym bradley [m("hotmail.com","goldnbits");">] Sent: Friday, 28 June 2013 9:21 PM      To: m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">
Subject: [canberrabirds] Question on New Holland Honeyeater

Evening All

 

Today I had a visit from two new holland honeyeater/s I noted one has a yellow face, 

 

I was wondering if one is female and one male if so which is which please

 

 

 

 

Also my over friendly Butcher Bird came in for a couple of visits today he has been around for a couple of weeks

 

 

 

 

Cheers

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