That is interesting. Crescent Honeyeaters are not a particularly social species. Nor are they common enough to generally have that many together. But that doesn’t
mean it wasn’t. In Tasmania I found them much more common, but locally only in collections, along the Murrumbidgee river.
Funny though when I was in Philippines I several times I heard a bird call just like Crescent Honeyeaters but of course it wasn’t. I still don’t know.
Philip
From: Jean Casburn [
Sent: Saturday, 23 March, 2019 9:46 AM
To: canberrabirds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Saturday more Yellow-faced honeyeaters and others honeyeater Question
A small flock
of about 10
YFHE came
over this morning while I was outside for 5 minutes.
Also an unidentified flock of
about 10
honeyeaters, the size of Crescent
Honeyeaters with strident calls, came
after the Yellow-faced . Do Crescent Honeyeaters move out from the mountains or migrate?
Could this group have been Crescents?
Jean
