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Yellow-throated Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/yellow-throated-honeyeater/The Yellow-throated Honeyeater can be quite aggressive towards other honeyeaters, as well as other species such as pardalotes, Golden Whistlers and Grey Shrike-thrushes, chasing them away in both breeding and non-breeding seasons.
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Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/tawny-crowned-honeyeater/One pair of Tawny-crowned Honeayeaters continued to feed their nestlings despite being surrounded by shellfire at an artillery range.
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Strong-billed Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/strong-billed-honeyeater/Unlike other Melithreptus honeyeaters, the Strong-billed Honeyeater is adapted to foraging for insects on the trunks of trees, moving up and down vertically and ripping at the bark to find food.
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Striped Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/striped-honeyeater/The Striped Honeyeater is found in forests and woodlands, often along rivers, as well as mangroves and in urban gardens.
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Black-chinned Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/black-chinned-honeyeater/When choosing hair or fur to make its nest the Black-chinned Honeyeater tends to choose pale colours, plucking the white or cream hairs from cattle and horses (and even from a cat), as well as wool from sheep.
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Brown-headed Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/brown-headed-honeyeater/The Brown-headed Honeyeater prefers the lightest-coloured hairs for its nest, choosing white rather than brown hairs from piebald (two-tone) ponies and cattle, and ignoring all-brown animals.
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Lewin's Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/lewins-honeyeater/This honeyeater is the most widespread of Australia's eastern coastal rainforests.
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Blue-faced Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/blue-faced-honeyeater/The Blue-faced Honeyeater is one of the first birds heard calling in the morning, often calling 30 minutes before sunrise.
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Red Wattlebird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/red-wattlebird-anthochaera-carunculata/The Red Wattlebird is the second largest honeyeater in Australia (the Tasmanian Yellow Wattlebird is the largest). They can display domineering and often aggressive behaviour towards other birds intruding on their territory.
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White-cheeked Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-cheeked-honeyeater/Medium size, black and white, long curved bill, bright yellow tail.
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