White-throated honeyeater

White-throated honeyeater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Melithreptus
Species: M. albogularis
Binomial name
Melithreptus albogularis
Gould, 1848

The white-throated honeyeater (Melithreptus albogularis) is native to New Guinea, and eastern and northern Australia. It is 11.5 - 14.5 cm long, olive green above and white below, with a black head, a white patch over the eye and a white stripe at the back of the neck.

Similar species

Western Australian white-naped honeyeaters (race chloropsis) also have a white eye patch and so can be difficult to distinguish, but there is no range overlap. Eastern white-naped honeyeaters (race lunatus) have a red eye patch.

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