birding-aus

Cawling David Geering or ........

To: 'John Gamblin' <>
Subject: Cawling David Geering or ........
From: "Mules, Michael" <>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:00:15 +1000

Hi John,

I'll have a go.  My guess would be a Yellow-faced Honeyeater, as it is the only species around the Mornington Peninsula to even remotely fit the description.  It is the only Lichenostomus honeyeater (apart from the Eungella and Bridled Honeyeaters of FNQld) to have yellow above black on the face.  I hope this helped.

Cheers, Michael


Michael Mules
Curator, Science Program
Museum Victoria
Melbourne Museum, Carlton

Ph: 8341 7426


    ----------
    From:   John Gamblin[SMTP:
    Sent:   Wednesday, 6 December 2000 9:45 AM
    To:     Birding-Aus
    Subject:        [BIRDING-AUS] Cawling David Geering or ........

    Any other person out there with a huge interest in
    Honeyeaters? for the past few days now, my good friend
    Tony has been getting in his native styled garden a
    honeyeater, which neither of us can locate in any of
    the many good birding books around?

    It has a wishy washy pale yellow eye mask with a
    looped
    black line curled at the end of the line which runs
    under each eye and around the back of the head.

    A cute song like call of high notes that sounds like
    chee-chee-chee-chee-chee? very high pitched.

    Main body coloring is similar to a wattlebird but with
    pale pinkish color underwing? and no white at all on
    the chest or wings.

    It's living off of nectar and pollen? very small in
    size compared to say a wattlebird and appears to be
    alone? about half the body length of a wattlebird in
    size. perhaps.

    Fast flight in short bursts.

    Gorgeous little fella and not that afraid of humans?

    Anyone want to have a go at naming it please?

    JAG

    __________________________________________________
    Do You Yahoo!?
    Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
    http://shopping.yahoo.com/

    Birding-Aus is on the Web at
    www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
    To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
    "unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
    to

Museum Victoria, Australia's International Museum.          This e-mail is solely for the named addressee and may be confidential.  You should only read, disclose, transmit, copy, distribute, act in reliance on or commercialise the contents if you are authorised to do so.  If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify by e-mail immediately, or notify the sender and then destroy any copy of this message.  Views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where specifically stated to be those of an officer of Museum Victoria.  Museum Victoria does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that it is free from errors, virus or interference.

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU