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Graceful Honeyeater

(Meliphaga gracilis)
Alternate name(s): "Little Yellow-spotted Honey-eater", "Grey-breasted Honeyeater"
Size: 14-17 cm
Weight: 13-18 g

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Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Graceful Honeyeater at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

Race "gracilis"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Graceful Honeyeater (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Julatten, QLD, July 2013]

The same Graceful Honeyeater as above, slightly different posture (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Julatten, QLD, July 2013]

Lateral view of a Graceful Honeyeater (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Julatten, QLD, July 2018]

Race "imitatrix"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Graceful Honeyeater (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Chili Beach, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Food, Diet

Honeyeaters of the genus Meliphaga are known to pierce the skin/peel of large fruit to get inside.

Graceful Honeyeater taking nectar from a Grevillea (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Chili Beach, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Graceful Honeyeater at a pierced large fruit (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Julatten, QLD, July 2018]

Graceful Honeyeater taking the flesh of a fruit (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Julatten, QLD, July 2018]

Lateral view of a Graceful Honeyeater scavenging food (photo courtesy of R. Russell)
[Mount Molloy, QLD, June 2015]

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