Alice Springs Desert Park

ASDP BirdsAustralian Boobook Owl Australian Bustard Australian Hobby Banded Lapwing Barn Owl Black Kite Black-breasted Buzzard Black-faced Woodswallow Black-fronted Dotterel Bourke’s Parrot Brown Falcon Emu Inland Dotterel Orange Chat Pied Honeyeater Princess Parrot Rainbow Bee-eater Red-capped Robin Spinifex Pigeon Splendid Fairy-wren Tawny Frogmouth Wedge-tailed Eagle Western Bowerbird Whistling Kite White-faced Heron White-winged Fairywren

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Endemic to Australia, the Pied Honeyeater (Certhionyx variegatus) is a species of bird in the family of honeyeaters Meliphagidae. This species is also known as the Black and White Honeyeater or Western Pied Honeyeater.

Pied Honeyeater (Certhionyx variegatus), Alice Springs Desert Park, NT
Pied Honeyeater (Certhionyx variegatus), Alice Springs Desert Park, NT
Pied Honeyeater (Certhionyx variegatus), Alice Springs Desert Park, NT
Pied Honeyeater (Certhionyx variegatus), Alice Springs Desert Park, NT

  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Subphylum: Vertebrata
  • Informal: Gnathostomata
  • Class: Aves
  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Suborder: Passeri
  • Informal: Corvida
  • Family: Meliphagidae
  • Subfamily: Meliphaginae
  • Genus: Certhionyx
  • Subgenus: infrageneric Certhionyx
  • Species: Certhionyx variegatus

Footnote & References

  1. Pied Honeyeater, Certhionyx (Certhionyx) variegatus Lesson, 1830, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/99457e79-e27a-4c16-95fa-29070d3de4fb
Pied Honeyeater (Certhionyx variegatus), Alice Springs Desert Park, NT
Pied Honeyeater (Certhionyx variegatus), Alice Springs Desert Park, NT

ASDP BirdsAustralian Boobook Owl Australian Bustard Australian Hobby Banded Lapwing Barn Owl Black Kite Black-breasted Buzzard Black-faced Woodswallow Black-fronted Dotterel Bourke’s Parrot Brown Falcon Emu Inland Dotterel Orange Chat Pied Honeyeater Princess Parrot Rainbow Bee-eater Red-capped Robin Spinifex Pigeon Splendid Fairy-wren Tawny Frogmouth Wedge-tailed Eagle Western Bowerbird Whistling Kite White-faced Heron White-winged Fairywren

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Alice Springs Desert ParkFauna Flora Nature Theatre Nocturnal House