Scaly-breasted Honeyeater (Lichmera squamata)

Other Names (World)
Scaly-breasted Honeyeater, White-tufted Honeyeater, Scaly Honeyeater, Scaled Honeyeater, Tanimbar Honeyeater, Banda Sea Honeyeater, Mottle-breasted Honeyeater

Family
Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Salvadori, 1878)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry forest, mangroves. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, arable land.

Range (Guide)

Indonesia.

Tayandu Is (Ree, Tayandu), Koer Is (Kilsoein), Manggoer, Fathol, Taam, Kai Is (Kai Besar, Er) and Godan I, in south-eastern Moluccas, and Wetar, Romang, Damar, Leti, Moa, Luang, Sermata, Babar and Tanimbar Is (including Larat, Loetoe and Moloe), in eastern Lesser Sundas.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A whistling 'chirup'. A loud, descending trill.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (34)...)

Scaly-breasted Honeyeater (Lichmera squamata) [XC204923]
by Mike Nelson from Leti Moa Lakor, Maluku Barat Daya, Maluku, Indonesia (call)

Scaly-breasted Honeyeater (Lichmera squamata) [XC121844]
by Frank Lambert from Tanimbar Islands: Site 1 Yamdena, Maluku, Indonesia (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Silver-eared Honeyeater (Lichmera alboauricularis). Populations of Tanimbar Is sometimes separated as geographical subspecies salvadorii (type locality Timorlaut) and those from elsewhere in eastern Lesser Sundas as kebirensis (type locality Babar I), but more study is needed.

References
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