Scarlet Honeyeater

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'The Narrows', Mallacoota, FE Vic IMG_7341 20211116 - male

Notes: Smallest honeyeater. Compact body, short tail & relatively long down-curved black bill
& dark brown iris. Male: scarlet head (w. black lores), back, rump, throat, upper breast.
Female: brown above w. russet cast & to forehead, throat; pale grey edging to wing feathers;
yellow basal half or most of lower mandible; yellow gape. Cf Red-headed Honeyeater. Its natural
habitat is forest in tropical lowlands, where it forages mainly in the upper tree canopy.

Range from Morcombe & Stewart^©

Abattoir Swamp NP, Julatten, FN Qld IMG_7153 20190324 - female: faint red wash to face, neck.

Gladstone, NE Qld IMG_7770 20190717 - adult male: extensive red bleeding onto lower breast.

Gladstone, NE Qld IMG_7799 20190717 - adult female: faint red wash to face, pale grey edging to wing feathers.

Springvale Road, Wondecla, FNE Qld IMG_5070 20221022 - adult male. CLICK for another view.

Gladstone, NE Qld IMG_7794 20190717 - adult male. CLICK for another pic.

Gladstone, NE Qld IMG_7753 20190717 - juvenile: puffy yellow gape, no or minimal red on head.

Malanda, Tablelands, FNE Qld IMG_1803 20201112 - immature male.

'The Narrows', Mallacoota, FE Vic IMG_7361+7372 20211116 - male

Lake Barrine, Crater Lakes NP, Tablelands, FN Qld MVI_7507 20161002

Gladstone, NE Qld MVI_7826+7798 20190718 - male then female foraging./