Nesoptilotis flavicollis
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The yellow-throated honeyeater (Nesoptilotis flavicollis) is a species of passerine bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is similar in behaviour and appearance to the white-eared honeyeater and is endemic to Australia's island state of Tasmania. It was formerly considered a pest of orchards.
The species was originally described by French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1817, who placed it in the genus Melithreptus. Its specific epithet is derived from the Latin words flavus 'yellow', and collis 'neck'. Other vernacular names are the green cherry-picker, green dick or green linnet.
The yellow-throated honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus, but was moved to Nesoptilotis after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic. It is a sister taxon to the white-eared honeyeater (N. leucotis), which occurs on mainland Australia but not in Tasmania, and they belong to a clade that contains the genera Entomyzon, Melithreptus and Foulehaio.
The yellow-throated honeyeater is a medium-sized honeyeater with a relatively long tail. Typical weight is 31 g (1.1 oz) and the... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Freycinet National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Maria Island National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobart | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-throated Honeyeater sighting in Hobart on a given day, based on 307 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 24th most-seen of the 79 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–April and July–August
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-throated Honeyeater in Hobart on a given day, against about 10% in June and November–January, the lowest months.
Between 5 and 8 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-throated Honeyeater sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Hobart, in our data
Hobart is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yellow-throated Honeyeater sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Meliphagidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-throated Honeyeater that you can see in Hobart (family Meliphagidae, Honeyeaters) are Little Wattlebird (about 60%), Yellow Wattlebird (about 60%) and New Holland Honeyeater (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-throated Honeyeater is recorded against all the birds logged in Hobart (307 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
