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Photo by Pearly_Shells
Photo taken: Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

Lichenostomus ornatus

[edit] Identification

Dark face, upswept yellow neck plume, olive-green head, faint yellow line under the dark eye, grey-green upperparts, and heavily streaked grey-brown underparts, long, down-curved black bill . Young birds have a yellow bill base and eye-ring.

[edit] Distribution

Southern mainland Australia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Mallee and open woodlands, freshwater wetland areas and coasts.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes insects, lerps and nectar.

It builds an open, cup-shaped nest from wool, green grass and spider-webs, lined with wool, grasses, plant-down and brightly-coloured feathers, and it is suspended by the rim from a thin fork or from foliage of mallee eucalypts and other small shrubs. Both parents feed the young. This species is parasitised by Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Pallid Cuckoo, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo and Shining Bronze-Cuckoo.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID