I have a big family (or maybe many families) of Blue faced honeyeaters visiting our backyard every day for many years now.
I have always noticed very striking blue face but now all the babies have been born all I am getting is the olive green colouring around the eye. Does this mean that the adult too turn back to olive green or am I just missing when the adults return to the bird bath each day ?
I get some 13 olive green faced honeyeaters every day, many times a day, returning to the bird bath but I’ve not noticed the blue faced ones at all.
Jude
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Adult Blue-faced Honeyeaters never lose their blue faces once they acquire them. I had a bird in the hand on the species published in the journal Corella some years back in which I describe and illustrate the colour changes. If anyone is interested in looking it up I can provide the reference when I return home on Tuesday night. Contact me off-list if interested.
Greg Clancy Ecologist Coutts Crossing NSW
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