How to Identify Meliphagidae

Key Identification Features

• The species has a distinct potbellied shape, with relatively long, broad, rounded wings, a short, square-ended tail, long thin legs, a short slender straight bill, and a brush-tipped tongue.
• The brown honeyeater, scientific name Lichmera indistincta, is a bird species in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.
• The species’ key identifying feature is a prominent white plume extending across the neck from the throat to the edge of the nape.
• The neck plume of juveniles is shorter and less distinct, and often lacks the black border formed by the tipped ear coverts.

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