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Helmeted Honey Eater. I was lucky to be asked to go to the conservation reserve where only 100 of these endangered birds live.<br />
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Helmeted Honey Eater.

I was lucky to be asked to go to the conservation reserve where only 100 of these endangered birds live.

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The Helmeted Honeyeater is a passerine bird in the Honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies of the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. It is Victoria’s only endemic bird, and was adopted as one of the state’s faunal emblems in 1971.

Similar species: Perching Birds
Species identified by Stratus
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Uploaded May 25, 2014. Captured May 23, 2014 12:43 in 1933 Healesville - Koo Wee Rup Road, Yellingbo VIC 3139, Australia.
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III
  • f/4.0
  • 1/256s
  • ISO1000
  • 200mm