Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

1 Eastern Spinebill at Yackandandah, VIC

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Identification history

	Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris	20 Sep 2021	Darcy
	Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris	19 Sep 2021	KylieWaldon

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These birds made me look closer at what they were on. I thought they were on wattle trees - but then I realised they were actually drinking out of mistletoes.

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Darcy wrote:

20 Sep 2021

Yeah mistletoes can be a really good food source for honeyeaters, especially cause they don't have a regular flowering period, instead they just flower kind of randomly. This means they can fill food gaps in between the flowering periods of other trees and shrubs. Looks like a grey mistletoe, which is typically confined to wattles

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Location information

Coordinates 146.834364 -36.319181
Places Yackandandah, VIC

Sighting information

4 Abundance
19 Sep 2021 09:51 AM Recorded on
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Species information

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris Scientific name
Eastern Spinebill Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 833.26m Recorded at altitude
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