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Photo by aladyforty
Photo taken: Jerramungup western Australia

Lichenostomus cratitius

[edit] Identification

A grey to olive-green honeyeater it has a narrow line of lilac gape skin above a yellow streak on the throat, a blackish facemask and pointed yellow ear-coverts.

[edit] Distribution

Australia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.  Inhabits mallee and heath communities and adjacent woodlands.

[edit] Behaviour

The primary diet is nectar from mallee eucalypts and banksias but also insects from foliage, bark or whilst on the wing. Pollen from eucalypts, epacrids and Mistletoe is consumed, as are seeds, and honeydew and manna from insect-infested foliage.

They build a flimsy or delicate nest shaped like a cup of bark strips, grass and down, bound with spider web and egg sacs, slung in a horizontal fork or from slender branchlets within dense foliage.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID