Well who knows, birds can be sick and every individual dies. I can tell a story about the one White-fronted Honeyeater that stayed at my home for 9 weeks about
10 years ago. I have all the details written down somewhere. After a rainy night within the first week or two of its stay with me it spent one whole day behaving exactly like that
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
you describe (apart from that it spent most of the day sleeping and looking generally miserable at the exposed top of a tree). That was the day Geoffrey Dabb first came to film it. For all of the other about 62 days of its time with me (and I watched it every
day and many other people watched on many days) it was a very active and predictable bird, barely sitting still for a minute.
Philip
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Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2016 7:04 PM
To: Canberrabirds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Sick? Migrating Yellow-faced Honeyeater at Tuggeranong
Hi,
At 10am I have noticed a lonely Yellow-faced Honeyeater perching on a low branch near my office. It has been staying on the same spot during lunch time and even after 6pm+.
Could this be a sick bird? It closed its eyes most of the time and never moved its position except moving its head and opening its eyes occasionally.
Hope it survives tomorrow and continued its journey.
