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Species
Lichmera indistincta Vigors & Horsfield, 1827
Nomenclature
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Family: MeliphagidaeGenus: Lichmera
Species:
Lichmera indistincta Vigors & Horsfield, 1827
Usage:
valid
Vernacular names:
Vernacular name:
Brown Honeyeater, Australian Brown/Least/Warbling
Honeyeater
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SUMMARY
The Brown Honeyeater is a medium-small pale grey-brown honeyeater with a distinctive yellow tuft behind its eye. It also has yellow to olive wing patches and tail panels. It is pale grey below, darker olive brown above and has a long curved black bill. Young birds are paler with more yellow colouring and a yellow gape (open bill). It has a fast, undulating flight and is seen either singly, in pairs or small flocks in flowering trees and shrubs. The Brown Honeyeater is similar to the Dusky Honeyeater, Myzomela obscura, in size and shape, but this species is much darker brown and lacks the tuft behind the eye and the yellowish wing patches.