White-Throated Honeyeater

White-Throated Honeyeater

Melithreptus albogularis

Predict Sightings

About This Species

Found in open woodland, forest edges and mangroves across northern and eastern Australia, favouring eucalypts and paperbarks in flower. Small, noisy groups move quickly through the canopy gleaning insects and probing blossoms for nectar, often giving a sharp, chattering call that gives away their position before you see them. Most active in the early morning, when flowering gums draw in mixed feeding flocks.

Ethical Viewing Guidelines

  • A common and confiding bird that will often forage close to a still observer, so no special distance is required beyond normal courtesy and staying on formed tracks.
  • Avoid disturbing nesting pairs in spring and early summer, when adults are feeding young in a hanging cup nest.
  • Standard local wildlife protection rules apply on the reserves and parks where it is found.
LCAvesPasseriformesMeliphagidae

Seasonal Activity

150,298 sightings · 2000–2026

Citizen science records via GBIF

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Classification

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Meliphagidae

Photo

(c) Tan Kok Hui, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Tan Kok Hui

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Occurrence data from GBIF.