Honeyeaters in Australia
Our list for Australia has 7 honeyeaters recorded regularly there: 6 residents and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Australia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 7, most common first
Red WattlebirdAnthochaera carunculataResidentCommon33–37 cmRecorded all year
New Holland HoneyeaterPhylidonyris novaehollandiaeResidentCommon16–20 cmRecorded all year
Little WattlebirdAnthochaera chrysopteraResidentCommon25–30 cmRecorded all year
White-cheeked HoneyeaterPhylidonyris nigerResidentUncommon16–20 cmRecorded all year
Yellow WattlebirdAnthochaera paradoxaResidentUncommon37–45 cmRecorded all year
Western WattlebirdAnthochaera lunulataResidentRare33–38 cmRecorded all year
Regent HoneyeaterAnthochaera phrygiaPassage migrantRare20–24 cmRegularly Jan–Jul
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made