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A member of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae, the Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis) is a distinctive bird with a blue face. This species is large for a honeyeater. It has distinctive plumage that includes a white and olive-green upperparts, white underparts, a black head and throat with white nape and cheeks. The blue skin is around the eyes that are a yellow to white in colour.
Both the male and female birds are similar in appearance, with the adult birds that have the blue bare skin on each side of the face. The juveniles have yellow or green patches of bare skin.
The juvenile Blue-faced Honeyeater are similar to the adults, but the facial skin is yellow-green and the plumage on the throat bib is a light grey.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Meliphagidae
- Genus: Entomyzon
- Species: Entomyzon cyanotis
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