White-lined Honeyeater
Meliphaga albilineata ‡
Gunlom, Kakadu NP, N NT IMG_2551 20180723
Notes: Drab. Distinctive facial markings: gape usually puffy
& yellow, narrow silvery-white line
from gape passing below eye &
broadening onto ear-coverts; dirty white patch behind ear-coverts.
Blue-grey
eye. Mottled/streaked breast. Voice: powerful fluting song, amplified by rocky
gorges.
Cf Kimberley
Honeyeater. In rainforest, eucalypt woodlands, paperbarks in sandstone gorges
& on
sandstone escarpments.
Confined to Arnhem Land Plateau.
Range from Morcombe©
