Alice Springs Birds •
Alice Springs BirdsAlice Springs Birds — image index Alice Springs — Babblers Alice Springs — Black-faced Cuckooshrike Alice Springs — Brown Falcon Alice Springs — Channel-billed Cuckoo Alice Springs — Crested Pigeon Alice Springs — Galah Alice Springs — Magpie-lark Alice Springs — Musk Duck Alice Springs — Port Lincoln Ringneck Alice Springs — Rainbow Bee-eater Alice Springs — Sacred Kingfisher Alice Springs — Sanderling Alice Springs — Spinifex Pigeon Alice Springs — Singing Honeyeater Alice Springs — Southern Boobook Alice Springs — Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Alice Springs — Splendid Fairy-wren Alice Springs — Spotted Dove Alice Springs — Wedge-tailed Eagle Alice Springs — Western Bowerbird Alice Springs — Whistling Kite Alice Springs — White-plumed Honeyeater Alice Springs — Willie Wagtail Alice Springs — Yellow-throated Miner
Endemic to Australia, the Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula) is seen here in Alice Springs. Also known as the White-rumped Miner, this name comes from its distinctive white rump.
A medium-sized, grey passerines, the Yellow-throated Miner is grey above from the crown to the tail. They have yellow throat markings and bare yellow patch around the eye. They are pale grey below and have a light brown scalloping on the breast. The wings and tail edges are washed yellow, whilst the tail tips are white. The beak varies in colour from orange to yellow. The legs and feet are also variable from a pink-orange to yellow.
They are found in a wide range of habitats, especially where there are trees. They are also seen in urban parks, reserves, gardens, and will even invite themselves to your table at an open air cafe or restaurant.
Although they are honeyeaters, the main component of their diet are insects and other invertebrates. You will often see them probing beneath loose bark and among foliage in trees and the leaf litter on the ground. They also eat small fruits and nectar.
More info here: Birds > Honeyeaters > Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula).
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Meliphagidae
- Genus: Manorina
- Species: Manorina flavigula
Alice Springs BirdsAlice Springs Birds — image index Alice Springs — Babblers Alice Springs — Black-faced Cuckooshrike Alice Springs — Brown Falcon Alice Springs — Channel-billed Cuckoo Alice Springs — Crested Pigeon Alice Springs — Galah Alice Springs — Magpie-lark Alice Springs — Musk Duck Alice Springs — Port Lincoln Ringneck Alice Springs — Rainbow Bee-eater Alice Springs — Sacred Kingfisher Alice Springs — Sanderling Alice Springs — Spinifex Pigeon Alice Springs — Singing Honeyeater Alice Springs — Southern Boobook Alice Springs — Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Alice Springs — Splendid Fairy-wren Alice Springs — Spotted Dove Alice Springs — Wedge-tailed Eagle Alice Springs — Western Bowerbird Alice Springs — Whistling Kite Alice Springs — White-plumed Honeyeater Alice Springs — Willie Wagtail Alice Springs — Yellow-throated Miner
Alice Springs FaunaAlice Springs Native Bees Alice Springs Beetles Alice Springs Birds Alice Springs Gastropods (Gastropoda) Alice Springs Insects Alice Springs Marsupials Alice Springs Reptiles Alice Springs Spiders
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander