Honeyeater
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The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds. The family includes the Australian chats, myzomelas, friarbirds, wattlebirds, miners and melidectes. They
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A female eastern spinebill feeding. Honeyeaters typically hang from branches while feeding on nectar.
Meliphagoidea
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Meliphagoidea is a superfamily of passerine birds. They contain a vast diversity of small to mid-sized songbirds widespread in the Austropacific region. The Australian Continent has the largest richne
Honeyeater
…Australian fairy-wrens), Pardalotidae (pardalotes), and Acanthizidae (thornbills, Australian warblers, scrubwrens, etc.), they comprise the superfamily Meliphagoidea and originated early in the evolutionary history of the oscine passerine radiation. Although honeyeaters look and behave very much like other nectar-feeding…
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Eastern striated pardalote, Pardalotus striatus ornatus. Their molecular and morphological plesiomorphy has long misled researchers about the pardalotes' affiliations.