Ptilotula ornata
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia, where it inhabits temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The yellow-plumed honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus, but was moved to Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
The yellow-plumed honeyeater is a medium-sized honeyeater with a relatively long, down-curved black bill, a dark face and a distinctive, upswept yellow neck plume. It has an olive-green head, with a faint yellow line under the dark eye, grey-green upperparts, and heavily streaked grey-brown underparts. Young birds have a yellow bill base and eye-ring.
Similar species include purple-gaped honeyeater, grey-fronted honeyeater and fuscous honeyeater. The song is a loud, clear, three-note chier wit chier, often performed before dawn, and by males during display flight. The yellow-plumed honeyeater is endemic to southern mainland Australia, from western New South Wales and Victoria, through South Australia to south-west Western Australia... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hattah-Kulkyne National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Flinders Ranges National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-plumed Honeyeater sighting in Flinders Ranges National Park on a given day, based on 40 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 47th most-seen of the 94 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–May and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-plumed Honeyeater in Flinders Ranges National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July, the lowest month. December has too few records to rate.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-plumed Honeyeater sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 2
Of the 2 parks where we can rate Yellow-plumed Honeyeater sightings, Flinders Ranges National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Hattah-Kulkyne National Park (Australia, about 70%).
Same genus: Ptilotula
The closest relatives of the Yellow-plumed Honeyeater that you can see in Flinders Ranges National Park (genus Ptilotula, Plumed Honeyeaters) are White-plumed Honeyeater (about 30%) and Grey-fronted Honeyeater (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-plumed Honeyeater is recorded against all the birds logged in Flinders Ranges National Park (40 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
