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Tawny-breasted Honeyeater (Xanthotis flaviventer) Alternate name(s): "Buff-breasted Honeyeater", "Streaked Honeyeater", "Streak-naped Honeyeater" Size: 18-20 cm Weight: 27-41 g

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Tawny-breasted Honeyeaters are medium-sized nectar-eating birds. Both sexes are alike. Ear coverts, cheeks chin and throat are grey, while the rest of the underparts is tawny with faint grey streaking. Below the eye and bare skin, from the lores to behind the eyes they have a prominent white curved stripe. The crown is dark-grey, while the rest of the upperparts, including the tail, is greyish-brown. The wing feathers have tawny edge lining. Race "filigera" has a flecked neck and hindcrown, while race "saturatior" has a plain neck and hindcrown. The irises are dark. The slightly down-curved strong bill is black, wiile the legs and feet are grey.

Taxonomy, classification See Tawny-breasted Honeyeater at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed based on sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Tawny-breasted Honeyeater is available HERE . The range of the Tawny-breasted Honeyeater extends from West Papua via New Guinea to the Aru Islands and southward to far north-eastern Australia. There are two races of Tawny-breasted Honeyeaters in Australian territory. Race "saturatior" is found only on islands along the Torres Strait, while race "filigera" resides in the northern part of Cape York peninsula, as far to the South as the Malaman River on the western coastal fringe towards the Gulf of Carpentaria and to the McIlwraith Range on the eastern side. Tawny-breasted Honeyeaters have a preference for tropical rainforest, monsoon forest and fringe vegetation around those, but also mangrove and heath.

Sightings Click here for sighting information Race "filigera" B. Hensen reports finding a Tawny-breasted Honeyeater, race "filigera", at Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, in December 2018. M. Eaton found a Tawny-breasted Honeyeater, race "filigera", at Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, in August 2019.

Photos

Race "filigera"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Tawny-breasted Honeyeater (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Near-lateral view of a Tawny-breasted Honeyeater foraging for insects (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Lateral view of a Tawny-breasted Honeyeater (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Lateral/ventral view of a Tawny-breasted Honeyeater (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Tawny-breasted Honeyeater hanging off a twig (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Dorsal/ventral view of a Tawny-breasted Honeyeater; note the flecked neck and hindcrown which are characteristic of race "filigera" (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]