HoneyeatersHoneyeaters Index Blue-faced Honeyeater Brown Honeyeater Brown-headed Honeyeater Crescent Honeyeater Eastern Spinebill Grey-fronted Honeyeater Grey-headed Honeyeater New Holland Honeyeater Noisy Miner Pied Honeyeater Red Wattlebird Scarlet Honeyeater Singing Honeyeater Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater White-plumed Honeyeater Yellow-throated Miner Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
The Brown-headed Honeyeater (Melithreptus brevirostris) is endemic to Australia.
It is found in coastal south-eastern Australia, central-southern Queensland (mainly west of the Great Dividing Range, through New South Wales, Victoria and eastern South Australia (including Flinders Ranges), as well as parts of south-western Australia.
Its natural habitats are eucalypt forests and woodlands, temperate forests and shrubby vegetation, tree lined coastal cliffs and mountain ranges, and inland semi-arid plains.
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Meliphagidae
- Genus: Melithreptus
- Species: M. brevirostris
- Binomial name: Melithreptus brevirostris
HoneyeatersHoneyeaters Index Blue-faced Honeyeater Brown Honeyeater Brown-headed Honeyeater Crescent Honeyeater Eastern Spinebill Grey-fronted Honeyeater Grey-headed Honeyeater New Holland Honeyeater Noisy Miner Pied Honeyeater Red Wattlebird Scarlet Honeyeater Singing Honeyeater Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater White-plumed Honeyeater Yellow-throated Miner Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Yellow-tufted Honeyeater