Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (Acanthagenys rufogularis) [XC335578]
by Greg McLachlan from Tibooburra, New South Wales, Australia (call, song)
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (Acanthagenys rufogularis) [XC859551]
by Peter Boesman from Patchewollock Bushland Reserve, Victoria, Australia (call)
Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of grasses and rootlets bound with cobweb, lined with fur, wool or other soft materials, usually suspended by the rim from a horizontal fork in a tree or a clump of mistletoe, up to 20 meters above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
Usually 2; pale cream-brown or light olive, sparingly marked with dark brown and underlying blue-grey usually at the larger end, sometimes all over; oval; about 25 x 18 mm. Incubation: about 14 days; by female.
Young
Fledge in about 15 days.
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Similar Species
None if seen well, but in brief or distant flight views with Striped Honeyeater (Plectorhyncha lanceolata) and Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata), Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) and Western Wattlebird (Anthochaera lunulata). When seen flying away from the observer it may be confused with Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula) which has smaller white tips to the tail, and a steady flight over long distances that is not undulating.
References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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