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[[Image:Foresthoneyeater.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Subspecies ''viridis''<br />Photo by {{user|joe_cockram|joe cockram}}<br />Taveuni, [[Fiji]], September 2006]]
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;[[:Category:Gymnomyza|Gymnomyza]] viridis
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==Identification==
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Has a yellow bill (compared with brown bill of [[Duetting Giant Honeyeater]].
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==Distribution==
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Endemic to Taveuni and Vanua Levu [[Fiji]] in the Pacific Ocean<sup>[[#References|1]]</sup>.
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==Taxonomy==
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This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species.<br />
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Has been considered conspecific with [[Duetting Giant Honeyeater]].
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==Habitat==
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Rainforest
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==Behaviour==
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====Diet====
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The diet includes nectar, insects andcaterpillars.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug14}}#{{Ref-HM03Cor7}}#{{Ref-GillDonsker14V5.2}}#[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=1567105 Thread] discussing the taxonomy of this species.
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#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved April 2014)
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{{ref}}
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==External Links==
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{{GSearch|Gymnomyza+viridis}}
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[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Gymnomyza]]

Revision as of 13:30, 8 May 2015

Subspecies viridis
Photo by joe cockram
Taveuni, Fiji, September 2006
Gymnomyza viridis

Identification

Has a yellow bill (compared with brown bill of Duetting Giant Honeyeater.

Distribution

Endemic to Taveuni and Vanua Levu Fiji in the Pacific Ocean1.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Has been considered conspecific with Duetting Giant Honeyeater.

Habitat

Rainforest

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes nectar, insects andcaterpillars.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
  3. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
  4. Thread discussing the taxonomy of this species.
  5. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved April 2014)

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