Blue-faced Honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis
Immature Blue-faced Honeyeater, Deniliquin, NSW, Australia, March 2006 - click for larger image Deniliquin, NSW, Australia
March 2006

The Blue-faced Honeyeater is distributed along the north and east of Australia and inland in south-east Australia. It is found mainly in eucalypt woodland but also in scrub, farmland, orchards and banana plantations where it can be a bit of a pest.

Immature Blue-faced Honeyeater, Deniliquin, NSW, Australia, March 2006 - click for larger image It has conspicuous blue facial skin and a black crown with a white band across the nape. Upperparts are mainly olive-green while underparts are white with a black bib. The immature, shown here, has an olive-green face and a greyish bib.

It has a varied diet including nectar, pollen, insects and fruit such as cultivated pears and bananas. It rarely builds its own nest normally using an abandoned babbler nest.
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