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New Holland Honeyeater
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With long, slender beaks and a tongue which can protrude well beyond the end of their beaks, New Holland Honeyeaters are able to probe for nectar in the deep flowers of Banksias and Grevilleas.

Yellow-throated Honeyeater
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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.

Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
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One pair of Tawny-crowned Honeayeaters continued to feed their nestlings despite being surrounded by shellfire at an artillery range.

Strong-billed Honeyeater
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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.

Eungella Honeyeater
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Nowadays, it is rare that a new species of bird is discovered and rarer still that a discovery is made near a major town.

Striped Honeyeater
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The Striped Honeyeater is found in forests and woodlands, often along rivers, as well as mangroves and in urban gardens.

Black-chinned Honeyeater
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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.

Brown-headed Honeyeater
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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.

Lewin's Honeyeater
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This honeyeater is the most widespread of Australia's eastern coastal rainforests.

Fossil honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) from the Late Tertiary of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland
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Fossil honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) from the Late Tertiary of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland