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White-streaked Honeyeaters are medium-sized nectar-eating birds. Their most prominent feature are light-grey, in the centre also yellow-tinged spiny feathers down the chin and chest. The belly is also yellow-tinged at the center and light-grey elsewhere. The vent is also yellow-tinged grey, and the undertail mid-grey. The head is dark-grey, almost black, except for slim moustachial stripes and broad ear tufts, both of which are golden-yellow. Continuing down from the head, the upperparts (mantle, back, rump, uppertail and upperwings) are dark-grey or almost black, with golden-yellow edge-lining on the flight and tail feathers. The plumage of the two sexes is alike. However, very unusually for Australian honeyeaters, when seen together the male is noticeably larger than the female. Juveniles have buff-olive upperparts (rather than near-black grey) and they do not have any spiny feathers on chin and chest yet. In general, their colours are duller than those of adults. The irises of both sexes are dark. The slightly down-curved bill is dark-grey with bluish lores, the legs and feet are also dark-grey.

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-streaked Honeyeater is available HERE .

White-streaked Honeyeaters are endemic to Cape York peninsula, in far-North QLD.

Their range encompasses the entire tip of Cape York peninsula, with a south-eastern extension reaching Cape Melville NP, Muundhi (Jack River) NP and Port Douglas, QLD.

White-streaked Honeyeaters have a preference for tropical rainforest.

M. Eaton reports spotting a White-streaked Honeyeaters at Fruit Bat Falls, Cape York peninsula, QLD, in June 2024. All sighting, photographic and audio information presented on this page has been kindly contributed by M. Eaton.