Adult Blue-faced Honeyeaters never lose their blue faces once they acquire
them. I had a bird in
the hand on the species published in the journal Corella some years back in
which I describe and
illustrate the colour changes. If anyone is interested in looking it up I can
provide the reference
when I return home on Tuesday night. Contact me off-list if interested.
Greg Clancy
Ecologist
Coutts Crossing NSW
On Sun, Feb 27th, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Roaminoz - <> wrote:
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> I have a big family (or maybe many families) of Blue faced honeyeaters
> visiting our backyard every day for many years now.
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> I have always noticed very striking blue face but now all the babies have
> been born all I am getting is the olive green colouring around the eye.
> Does this mean that the adult too turn back to olive green or am I just
> missing when the adults return to the bird bath each day ?
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> I get some 13 olive green faced honeyeaters every day, many times a day,
> returning to the bird bath but I've not noticed the blue faced ones at
> all.
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> Jude
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