Habitat
Mountain rainforests, descending to the lowlands in winter, occasionally visiting flowering trees of nearby eucalypt forests, woodlands and paperbarks.
North-eastern Queensland on eastern Great Divide from Mt Amos (south of Cooktown) south to southern Paluma Range and Mt Elliot (Swest of Townsville) including coastal islands, and extending inland to Windsor and Atherton Tablelands, in north-eastern Australia.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.
Bridled Honeyeater (Bolemoreus frenatus) [XC104758]
by Eliot Miller from Mt Lewis, Atherton Tableland, Qld, Australia (song, alarm)
Bridled Honeyeater (Bolemoreus frenatus) [XC353455]
by Marc Anderson from Evelyn, Tablelands Regional, Queensland, Australia (call, song)
Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of twigs from climbing plants and some stems of a small fern, lined with plant fiber, suspended in a scrub tree.
Eggs (Guide)
2; smooth, matt, white with minute dots and purple-blue and grey-brown mostly at the larger end; tapered-oval; about 25 x 15 mm.
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Genus often subsumed in Meliphaga. Sometimes placed in Oreornis. Forms a distinctive species group with Black-throated Honeyeater (Caligavis subfrenata), Obscure Honeyeater (Caligavis obscura), Eungella Honeyeater (Bolemoreus hindwoodi) and Yellow-faced Honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops), and all sometimes combined in a separate genus, Caligavis. Formerly included Eungella Honeyeater (Bolemoreus hindwoodi) as an outlying population.
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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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