yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata)

Query: Birds of australia

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Subject:	yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata)
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Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (9131787141) - Ptilotula ornata.jpg

Resolution: 3495x2330 File Size: 2454619 Bytes Date: 2013:06:25 11:22:11 Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II (Canon) F number: f/8.0 Exposure: 1/3200 sec Focal Length: 700/1 Upload Date: 2017:02:27 17:50:22

yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata)

Description
Not many birds in the Mallee at present but it was nice to see a few Yellow-plumed HE.
Date 25 June 2013, 11:22
Source Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
Author Peter Jacobs from Australia https://www.flickr.com/people/45171208@N06
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow-plumed_Honeyeater_(9131787141).jpg

The yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The yellow-plumed honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus but was moved to Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Ptilotula
Species: Ptilotula ornata (Gould, 1838)
Synonyms: Lichenostomus ornatus

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