Endemic to Australia...in temperate
               forests and Mediterranean-type
               shrubby vegetation.
          
         
            
               Melithreptus brevirostris
            
               (L 5.2-6")
          
         
            
               Hattah-Kulkyne Nat’l Park
            
               30Oct2015
          
         
            
               Melithreptus is Greek for
               honey feed; revirostris is
               Latin for short beak.
          
         
            
               This amusing little bird seem to have no
               fear of up or down, and certainly no fear
               of hanging off the most precarious
               positions.
(David Jenkins)
          
         
            
               © Marc
               Anderson
            
               xeno-canto