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 LC    White-eared Honeyeater* Id (Atlas): 617
    Nesoptilotis leucotis Endemic

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-eared Honeyeater, Australian White-eared Honeyeater, New Norcia Honeyeater, Hairdresser

Family
Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)

Size
17 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Latham, 1801)

Derivation
Lich-en-o'-stom-us - Gk, leichen, lichen; Gk, stoma, mouth: leuc-ot'-is - Gk, leucos, white; Gk, otus, genitive of ous, ear

Abundance (Guide)
C - LC

Moderately common. Sedentary, nomadic or locally migratory.

Habitat
Mainly woodlands and open forests dominated by eucalypts and having a dense scrub layer. Heathlands and mallee.

Range (Guide)
Australia (B).

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Central Queensland to Victoria, southern South Australia, Kangaroo Island and south-western Australia.
 
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
Secure.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
In pairs or small parties.

Food
Insects and nectar.

Voice
A jarring, descending, 'chung-chung-chung'. A mellow 'chockup, chockup' or 'beer-brick, beer-brick'. Also a rapid, machinegun-like 'chock-chock-chock-chock-chock'.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (38)...)

 
White-eared Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis leucotis) [XC434546]
     by Marc Anderson from Mount Moffatt, Maranoa Regional, Queensland, Australia (song)

 
White-eared Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis leucotis) [XC344180]
     by Martin Cake from Bunyip State Park, Victoria, Australia (call)

Breeding Season (Guide)
August - January.

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Nest
Cup-shaped composed of bark and grasses bound with cobweb, lined with fur, hair or other soft materials, placed in a low bush or sapling, usually within 1 - 2 m of the ground.

Eggs (Guide)
2, sometimes 3; white lighlty spotted with red at the larger end; oval; about 21 x 15 mm. Incubation: 28 - 32 days; by female only.

Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fed by both parents.

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Yellow-throated Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis flavicollis).

Subspecies intergrade where they abut. Nominate subspecies and novaenorciae intergrade along inner slopes of Great Divide from south-eastern Queensland south to south-eastern South Australia.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • leucotis (Latham, 1801)   -  South-eastern Queensland (about Bunya Mts) south, on and east of Great Divide, to Victoria and south-eastern South Australia.
  • novaenorciae (Milligan, 1904)   -  Southern western Australia (southern from Kalbarri area) east to western edge of Nullarbor Plain, and across coastal and subcoastal mallee to south-eastern South Australia (southern from southern Flinders Ranges), and from eastern Queensland (southern from Burra Range, east of Hughenden) southern through eastern Murray-Darling Basin and western watershed of Great Divide to south-western and south-eastern New South Wales and adjacent Victoria.
  • thomasi (Mathews, 1912)   -  Kangaroo I, in south-eastern South Australia.



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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