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White-lined Honeyeaters are medium-sized nectar-eating birds. Their front is grey-brown, with a streaked breast, while the back is darker olive-grey, with olive edge-lining on the wing feathers. The yellow gape connects with a thin yellow arc under the eye, which in turn connects to a thin yellow fringe around the back of the ear coverts. Otherwise the head is olive-grey. The irises are blue. The down-curved bill is dark-grey, while legs and feet are grey.

The Kimberley Honeyeater (Territornis fordiana), has now been given full species status and is no longer considered to be a race of the White-lined Honeyeater.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the White-lined Honeyeater is available HERE .

White-lined Honeyeaters are endemic to the Top End of the Northern Territory in tropical northern Australia. They are found only in the central Top End, from the northern cental coastline southwards, in and around Kakadu NP, with Katherine and Nitmiluk NP at the southern end of the range.

White-lined Honeyeaters have a preference for pockets of rainforest, forest along rivers, and scrub in sandstone gorges.

B. Hensen reports spotting a White-lined Honeyeater at Gubara, Kakadu NP, NT, in July 2018.

M. Eaton found a White-lined Honeyeater at Gubara, Kakadu NP, NT, in July 2020, and another, again in the same area, in June 2023.