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White-lined Honeyeater (Meliphaga albilineata) Alternate name(s): "White-striped Honey-eater" Size: 17-20.5 cm Weight: 19-30 g

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Physical description Click here for a physical description 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.

Taxonomy, classification See White-lined Honeyeater at Wikipedia . Click here for classification information The Kimberley Honeyeater, Meliphaga fordiana, (not yet described on this website) has now been given full species status and is no longer considered to be a race of the White-lined Honeyeater.

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range 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.

Sightings Click here for sighting information 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.

Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a White-lined Honeyeater (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Kakadu NP, NT, July 2018]

Lateral view of a White-lined Honeyeater (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kakadu NP, NT, July 2020]

Lateral view of a White-lined Honeyeater (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kakadu NP, NT, July 2020]

Lateral/ventral view of a White-lined Honeyeater (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Kakadu NP, NT, July 2020]

Call(s)/Song

For this species we have recorded the following call(s)/song. The interpretation of their meaning is our own; comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

whlnhon_me_20230605_2.mp3	(Top End, NT)	Contact call(?)	© ME
whlnhon_me_20230605.mp3	(Top End, NT)	Contact calls(?)	© ME

More White-lined Honeyeater sound recordings are available at xeno-canto.org .

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