Melithreptus gularis
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The black-chinned honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis) is a species of passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia. Two subspecies are recognised. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests.
The black-chinned honeyeater was first described by John Gould in 1837 as Haematops gularis. He also described what he called the golden-backed honeyeater (as Melithreptus laetior) of northern Australia in 1875. Frederick George Waterhouse of the South Australian Museum had sent him four skins, writing of their beauty. Gould noted that it was clearly closely related to M. gularis, but differed in its plumage and smaller size. Richard Schodde united them into a single species in 1975, though Hugh Ford queried this in 1986, as he felt the two forms were as distinct as the yellow-tinted and fuscous honeyeaters that had similar ranges. Schodde countered that the black-chinned and golden-backed honeyeaters shared a much broader zone of hybridization. Since then they have been maintained as two subspecies of M. gularis, though Christidis and Boles noted in 2008 that data was limited and more fieldwork and genetic investigation... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grampians National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Black-chinned Honeyeater sighting in Grampians National Park on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 122nd most-seen of the 145 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Black-chinned Honeyeater in Grampians National Park on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-chinned 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.
Only Grampians National Park, in our data
Grampians National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-chinned Honeyeater sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Melithreptus
The closest relatives of the Black-chinned Honeyeater that you can see in Grampians National Park (genus Melithreptus, Dark-headed Honeyeaters) are White-naped Honeyeater (about 30%) and Brown-headed Honeyeater (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-chinned Honeyeater is recorded against all the birds logged in Grampians National Park (9 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.
