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'.
White-eared Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis leucotis) [XC172256]
by Marc Anderson from Kanangra, New South Wales, Australia (call, song)
White-eared Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis leucotis) [XC400606]
by Kaleb Cosier from Murray-Sunset, Mildura Rural City, Victoria, Australia (song)
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.
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.
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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