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Spiny-cheeked honeyeaters are one of the less colorful of the 60+ species of Australian honeyeaters. Like many others, they have some colorful bare 'wattles' on the face (here, the pink skin below the eye visible in a few of the images). They are widely distributed in arid regions, often gathering in large numbers around food sources, such as the flowering bottlebrush where many of these images were taken. Most honeyeaters are aggressive and this one is particularly 'pushy', regularly chasing off conspecifics and other species. I took the photos at Fowlers Gap, a research station in far northwestern New South Wales. |
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