dark olive color overall; yellow patch behind the eye (Australia; 2006-06-20)


Lewin's Honeyeater
Meliphaga lewinii

Native Range: Australia

Notes: a dark olive-green honeyeater with a yellow patch behind the eye and some other noticeable black and yellow lines and patterns on the head; native to extreme eastern Australia.

some yellow on the primaries; pretty blue iris (Australia; 2006-06-20)
note overall head pattern and short decurved bill (Australia; 2006-06-20)

black line thru eye and in front of yellow face patch (Australia; 2006-06-20)
yellow line extending back from the bill (Australia; 2006-06-20)