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Definition of honeyeater in English: honeyeaternoun ˈhʌnɪiːtəˈhənēˌēdər An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar. Family Meliphagidae: numerous species and genera Example sentencesExamples - Data on the foraging activities of honeyeaters were collected for each of the eight sites during four 45-minute sessions throughout the observation day.
- Of the 170 species of honeyeaters in Australia and the Pacific Islands, only three - the tui, the bellbird, and the stitchbird (the latter surviving only on offshore islands) - are found in New Zealand.
- Being honeyeaters, black-eared miners will consume nectar, but most of their diet is insects that they find under the bark of mature mallee eucalypts.
- Bell-birds and tuis - forest birds in the nectar-feeding family called honeyeaters - have brushlike tongues that enable them to lap up honeydew drops easily.
- Based in luxurious beachside bungalows, and fed delicious fare such as linguini with local crab and coconut sauce, we shared the island with white-collared kingfishers and orange-breasted honeyeaters.
- Traditionally, C. marchei has been considered to be a honeyeater in the family Meliphagidae.
- When we got to the island, we were most anxious to see the stitchbird, since this was the only place where we would encounter this unusual honeyeater.
- Of those, three were cormorants and five were honeyeaters.
- Still, bees are probably not as important to these mistletoes as native honeyeaters are, because the bees enter far fewer flowers.
- What the indigenous people called this pretty bird I do not know, but today it is known as the Blue-faced honeyeater, or Entomyzon cyanotis.
- My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves.
- I say there's not a huge difference in planting banksias to attract honeyeaters to your garden and scattering some wild birdseed out for the finches.
Definition of honeyeater in US English: honeyeaternounˈhənēˌēdər An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar. Family Meliphagidae: numerous species and genera Example sentencesExamples - My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves.
- I say there's not a huge difference in planting banksias to attract honeyeaters to your garden and scattering some wild birdseed out for the finches.
- Traditionally, C. marchei has been considered to be a honeyeater in the family Meliphagidae.
- When we got to the island, we were most anxious to see the stitchbird, since this was the only place where we would encounter this unusual honeyeater.
- What the indigenous people called this pretty bird I do not know, but today it is known as the Blue-faced honeyeater, or Entomyzon cyanotis.
- Based in luxurious beachside bungalows, and fed delicious fare such as linguini with local crab and coconut sauce, we shared the island with white-collared kingfishers and orange-breasted honeyeaters.
- Of the 170 species of honeyeaters in Australia and the Pacific Islands, only three - the tui, the bellbird, and the stitchbird (the latter surviving only on offshore islands) - are found in New Zealand.
- Data on the foraging activities of honeyeaters were collected for each of the eight sites during four 45-minute sessions throughout the observation day.
- Still, bees are probably not as important to these mistletoes as native honeyeaters are, because the bees enter far fewer flowers.
- Being honeyeaters, black-eared miners will consume nectar, but most of their diet is insects that they find under the bark of mature mallee eucalypts.
- Of those, three were cormorants and five were honeyeaters.
- Bell-birds and tuis - forest birds in the nectar-feeding family called honeyeaters - have brushlike tongues that enable them to lap up honeydew drops easily.
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