General Overview of Tasmania
Aboriginal Culture
Animals and Plants
Conventions
Equal Access
Employment for Travellers
Facts and Figures
Frequently Asked Questions
Gay and Lesbian Visitors
Moving to Tasmania
Our Islands
Reading Up
Studying in Tasmania
Travel Business/Investing
The yellow-throated honeyeater is common throughout Tasmania. Its preferred habitat is eucalypt forest, where it feeds on seasonally available nectar and insects.
It is about 20 centimetres (eight inches) tall, with a blackish face and upper breast, offset by a bright yellow throat. It has a number of calls: 'tonk, tonk, tonk'; 'tchook, tchook'; 'chur-uk, chur-uk' and also 'pick-em-up'.
The yellow-throated honeyeater breeds from August to December and lays two to three spotted pinkish eggs in a cup-shaped nest built within a metre (3.3 feet) of the ground.
Open