Brown-backed Honeyeater

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Abattoir Swamp NP, Julatten, FNE Qld IMG_3058 20220923

Notes: Small, brown w. mostly white underparts; bill pinkish; thin white line under deep
red-brown eye. Faint diffuse light brown barring across breast merging into diffuse streaking
along flanks. Juvenile: brown streaking on breast. Only two honeyeaters in Aust. build a
dome-shaped nest: the Brown-backed & the Bar-breasted. Often in flowering trees near
or overhanging water, particularly in paperbark swamps.

Range from Morcombe & Stewart^©

Lockhart River, Iron Range NP, CYP, FN Qld IMG_2619 20191215

Catfish Waterhole, Lakefield NP, CYP, FN Qld IMG_8158 20201004

Big Crystal Creek Camp, Paluma Range NP, NE Qld IMG_2791 20200817

Cattana Wetlands, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_4433 20231115 - CLICK for a couple at Dunne Rd. Ephemeral Swamp,
Cairns 20231021.

Abattoir Swamp NP, Julatten, FNE Qld IMG_6635 20240206. CLICK for one on 20201207.

Yorkeys Lagoon, Cairns, FN Qld IMG_0177 20190807

Centennial Lakes, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_0186 20180401 - leaving nest. CLICK for another there 20230822.

Mungana, nr Chillagoe, FN Qld IMG_1318 20180409 - juvenile: streaked breast.

Cattana Wetlands, Cairns, FN Qld IMG_2351+2354 20201125 - foraging and nest building.

Big Crystal Creek Camp, Paluma Range NP, NE Qld IMG_2719 20200817 - quality checks of the nest.