New addition! 🌏 Singing Honeyeater (Gavicalis virescens) #AustralianBirds #AustralasianBirds | #SingingHoneyeater #GavicalisVirescens | #Honeyeaters #HoneyeaterFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by pen_ash🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌏 New Holland honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae) #AustralianBirds | #NewHollandHoneyeater #PhylidonyrisNovaehollandiae | #Honeyeaters #HoneyeaterFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Lindell325🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds
Critically endangered honeyeaters

For several years I had the very real pleasure of being one of many volunteers helping with the supplementary feeding program for Critically Endangered Helmeted Honeyeaters. Helmeted Honeyeater (Li…

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The Sunday before last, I was in South Australia and decided to brave the 37C temperatures and visit #GluepotReserve (run by Birdlife Australia). I took the Whistler Walk. The #mallee was beautiful, though most wildlife was sensibly resting. Many #WoodSwallows and #HoneyEaters coming in to water in front of the hide.

It's a beautiful place - I hope to go back and camp there when it's slightly less hot.

Any ideas on what formed the burrow in the photo?

https://gluepot.org/visit-us/visitor-services-information/

#birds #birding

Visitor Services and Information | Birdlife Australia Gluepot Reserve

Just a pretty photo that I took a few years ago, a honeyeater having a feast on some red flowers.

#birds #flowers #honeyeaters #Australia #photography #birdphotos #BirdPhotography

Mistletoe is an important food source for regent #honeyeaters. Birdlife. Australia working with Aboriginal land council to return #mistletoe to burnt woodlands
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-23/bird-australia-aboriginal-land-council-mistletoe-restoration-nsw/101737812 #fires #birds boost #biodiversity
Birdlife Australia working with Aboriginal land council to return mistletoe to burnt woodlands

Arborists are manually planting mistletoe seeds in the treetops of burnt NSW woodlands in a bid to provide crucial food, shelter and nest sites for the critically-endangered regent honeyeater. 

ABC News