Blue-faced Honeyeater
It is not timid
This bird is rather big for a “honeyeating” passerine: its average length is 30 cm, with a wingspan of 45 cm.
It is recognizable by its olive-green back, its white breast and its black head, but especially because of an area of bare skin, around the eyes, that has a beautiful turquoise-blue colour. The Blue-Faced Honeyeater lives in noisy flocks. It is not timid and often ventures into the camp-sites of the Australian national parks in order to feed on leftovers of its favourite food: jam, milk and… honey!
In the wild, its diet consists mainly of insects, wild fruit and the pollen of tree-flowers, such as Eucalyptus and Screw Pine.
It readily joins with other birds, such as parakeets, in order to dissuade possible predators or to look for food together.
The species is not threatened.
A less threatened species
- Name : Blue-faced Honyeater
- Latin name : Entomyzon cyanotis
- Origin : North-Eastern Australier, New Guinea
- IUCN status : Least concerned
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