Honeyeater vs Wattlebird - What's the difference?
honeyeater | wattlebird |
Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.
* 1985', Hugh A. Ford, David C. Paton, ''Chapter 12: Habitat Selection in Australian '''Honeyeaters , with Special Reference to Nectar Productivity'', Martin L. Cody (editor), ''Habitat Selection in Birds ,
* 1999 , Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants ,
* 2008 , Les Christidis, Walter Boles (editors), Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds ,
Any of a group of Australian birds in the genus Anthochaera of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.
Any of three birds in the family Callaeidae, endemic to New Zealand.
As nouns the difference between honeyeater and wattlebird
is that honeyeater is any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers while wattlebird is any of a group of Australian birds in the genus Anthochaera of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.honeyeater
English
(wikipedia honeyeater) (Meliphagidae)Noun
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- For all honeyeaters' combined and White-naped ' Honeyeaters , the only other common species, there is actually a negative correlation between abundance and nectar productivity.
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- The spiny-cheeked honeyeater' has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other ' honeyeaters .
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- The adopted sequence of genera of Australian honeyeaters follows that implied by the phylogeny of Driskell and Christidis (2004).