Brown Honeyeater

Lichmera indistincta

The brown honeyeater is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It belongs to the honeyeaters, a group of birds which have highly developed brush-tipped tongues adapted for nectar feeding. Honeyeaters are found mainly in Australia, New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia, but the brown honeyeater is unique in that it also occurs on the island of Bali, making it the only honeyeater to be found west of the Wallace Line, the biogeographical boundary between the Australian-Papuan and Oriental zoogeographical regions. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 664,243 times across 12 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 28°C (typically 23 to 30°C, from 6 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Oceania ranged from 25°S in January to 16°S in June, about 900 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.