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Lewin's honeyeater
Our Lewin's honeyeaters are dark greenish/grey in colour, with a creamy yellow gape (fleshy corners of the mouth). They have pale yellow crescent-shaped ear patches. The bill is black and the eye is blue-grey. The sexes are similar in appearance and juveniles are similar to the adults, except they have brown eyes.
Often called 'banana birds' here in Australia, due to their appetite for fruit and can be a pest to humans in regard their activity in orchards.
These birds can be seen in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland, down to central Victoria. This one flew in to my garden from the sclerophyll forest opposite.
20 cm length
Lewin's honeyeater is a bird that inhabits the ranges along the east coast of Australia. It has a semicircular ear-patch, pale yellow in colour. The name of this bird commemorates the Australian artist John Lewin.
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