Oh, it is hard to -hide how pleased I am about taking pictures of this bird. Beautiful coloration, the outer ring of eyes in rich blue and olive wing feathers make a unique composition. This Honeyeater’s look in close-up seems to be of a predator, although in fact it is not a bird of prey. It feeds on nectar and fruit and invertebrates. It is a friendly bird and rarely attacks and feeds on other animals. I met them a few times, but I thought that individuals with a green eye rim were different species. It often happened in Australia that the differences in the appearance of birds that I saw as small ones meant another species. In this case they turned out to be just juveniles of this species. Their appearance did not correspond with the English name the Blue Faced Honeyeater. In Australia there is a great number of birds and to recognize them for the visitor from Europe it is a really hard work. In the atlas purchased in Australia there are 850 species of birds described. Besides herons, great egret, common cattle egret, cormorant all species seem exotic, and it is impossible to recognize them and memorize in few days. Cataloguing and verification of the photographed species after arriving lasted two weeks, and without the help of Hans (thanks for your patience and quick email responses) probably would take even longer. Coming back to my blue-faced honeyeaters I have to admit that I am proud of this part of my gallery. The photo session of a few adult blue-faced honeyeaters amidst of giant red blossoms created a colorful gem of my Australian collection. These honeyeaters are a medium-sized birds. Their wingspan is about 40 centimeters, and the weight is about 110 grams.

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A U S T R A L I A – introduction text - A U S T R A L I A N    B U S T A R D
News gallery birds:
1.Australian bustard.2.Emu.3.Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.4.White-faced Heron.5.Brolga.6.Green Figbird.7.Zebra Finch.8.Rainbow Lorikeet.9.Pheasant Coucal.10.Australian Pelican.11.Olive-backed Sunbird.12.Yellow Honeyeater.13.Apostlebird.14.Magpie Goose.15.Superb Fairywren. 16.Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.17.Noisy Friarbird.18.Straw-necked Ibis.19.Welcome swallow.20.Black Kite.21.Gala. 22.Plumed Whistling Duck.23.Dollarbird.24.Sacred Kingfisher.25.Masked Lapwing.26.Varied triller.27.Little friarbird. 28.Black-shouldered Kite.29.Laughing Kookaburra.30.Comb-crested jacana.31.Sharp-tailed sandpiper.32.Red-whiskered Bulbul.33.Peaceful Dove. 34.Bush stone curlew.  35.White-throated honeyeater.36.Australian Brushturkey.37.Noisy miner.38.New Holland Honeyeater. 39.Crimson Finch. 40.White-breasted Woodswallow.41.Australian King Parrot.42.Australian Wood Duck.43.Great Bowerbird.44.Little Pied Cormorant.45.Black-billed Koel.46.Australian Raven.47.Spangled drongo.48.Spiny-cheeked honeyeater.49.Willie Wagtail.50.Wedge-tailed Eagle.51.Common Myna.52.Lewin's Honeyeater.53.Eastern Spinebill.54.Chestnut-breasted Munia.55.Rainbow Bee-eater. 56.Blue-winged Kookaburra.57.Common bronzewing.58.Wandering whistling duck.59.Helmeted Friarbird.60.Crested Pigeon.61.Pied Currawong.62.Brown-backed honeyeater.63.Yellow-faced honeyeater.64.Grey-headed honeyeater.65Yellow-throated miner.66.Scaly-breasted munia.67.Masked Woodswallow.68.Hardhead.69.Pale-headed Rosella.70.Blue-faced Honeyeater.71.Grey Butcherbird.72.Australian magpie.73.Whistling kite.74.Black Swan.75.Royal Spoonbill.76.Double-barred Finch.77.Broad-billed Flycatcher.78.Australian Swamphen.79.Brown Falcon.80.Pied Butcherbird.81.White-browed scrubwren.82.Silvereye.83.Rufous-throated Honeyeater.84.Black-faced Cuckooshrike. 85.Red backed fairywren.86.Pacific black duck. 87.Magpie-lark. 88.Red winged parrot.89.Zitting Cisticola.90Cotton Pygmy Goose.91.Pallid Cuckoo. 92.Australian Kestrel.93.Crimson Rosella.94.Forest Kingfisher.95.Australian coot.96.Red-browed Finch.97.Australian White Ibis.98.Australasian Darter.99.Pied oystercatcher.100.Striated Heron.101.Cattle Egret.102.Great Egret.103.Intermediate Egret.104.Sooty Oystercatche.105.Green pygmy goose.106.Brush Wattlebird.107.White-heded Stilt.
News gallery reptiles:
1.Yellow Spotted Monitor. 2. Eastern blue-tongued lizard. 3.Jewel Rainbow. 4.Sand Monitor. 5.Nobbi Dragon. 6.Saw-shelled turtle.
News gallery mammals:
1. Dingo. 2. Flying fox. 3. Agile wallaby. 4. Eastern grey kangaroo. 5.Common wallaroo. 6.Whiptail Wallaby.
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