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 LC    Striped Honeyeater* Id (Atlas): 585
    Plectorhyncha lanceolata Endemic

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Striped Honeyeater, Lanceolated Honeyeater, Summerbird

Family
Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)

Size
21 - 23 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1838

Derivation
Plëc-to-rhynch'-a - Gk, plectos, straight; Gk, rhynchos, beak: lan-ce-o-la'-ta - L., lanceolatus, lance-shaped

Abundance (Guide)
MC

Moderately common. Sedentary or nomadic in drier regions.

Habitat
Drier open forests, woodlands, mallee, mulga. Also coastal thickets of melaleuca, banksia and casuarina.

Range (Guide)
Australia (B).

Image of Range of Striped Honeyeater
 
Eastern Australia, east of a line from Cairns, Qld to Yorke Peninsula, SA, but excluding south-eastern New South Wales, eastern Victoria and Tasmania.
 
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, procurred among blossoms and foliage.

Voice
Clear, rapid calls, more mellow than sharp, with slight variations giving a rollicking rise and fall, 'quirrip-quarreep-quirrip-quarreep-quirrip-quarreep', 'cherr-cherr-cherry-cherry'.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

 
Striped Honeyeater (Plectorhyncha lanceolata) [XC334639]
     by Marc Anderson from Gluepot, South Australia, Australia (song)

 
Striped Honeyeater (Plectorhyncha lanceolata) [XC695202]
     by Eddy Smith from Bimbi, New South Wales, Australia (song)

Breeding Season (Guide)
Late July - January.

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Nest
Cup-shaped and deep, composed of grasses and rootlets, neatly woven with plant-down, sheep's wool and occasionally emu feathers, lined with fine grasses, hair and feathers, suspended near the end of a drooping and swaying branch of a she-oak or other tree.

Eggs (Guide)
3 or 4; dull white, usually marked with brown-red and underlying pale purple-grey, sometimes forming a cap or zone at the larger end; oval; about 23 x 17 mm. Incubation: about 15 - 17 days; both sexes.

Young
Fledge in 15 - 17 days.

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Similar Species
In brief and distant views with Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (Acanthagenys rufogularis) which has darker gray plumage, has a rounded tail, lacking a notch, has a paler, and a whiter rump-patch.


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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