Blue-faced Honeyeater
Brisbane
Roma Street Parkland
16Oct2015
Is large for a honey-eater...is
common in northern and eastern
Australia and southern New Guinea.
Entomyzon cyanotis
(L 11.6")
Three families were listed in the order
Passeriformes in 1888; the IOC World Bird
listed 125 in 2013.
(Tom Birkhead et al.)
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finlay
xeno-canto
Entomyzon is Greek for suck
insects, i.e., a honeyeater;
cyanotis is Greek for blue eared.
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