Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Blue-faced honeyeater
Blue-faced honeyeater[edit]
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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 15, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 09:33, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
The Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis) is a passerine bird of the Honeyeater family Meliphagidae. A large honeyeater at around 29.5 cm (11.6 in) in length, It has distinctive plumage, with olive upperparts, white underparts and a black head and throat with white nape and cheeks. Males and females are similar in external appearance. Adults have a blue area of bare skin on each side of the face readily distinguishing them from juveniles, which have yellow or green patches of bare skin. Found in open woodland, parks, and gardens, the Blue-faced Honeyeater is common in northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It appears to be sedentary in parts of its range and locally nomadic in other parts; however, the species has been little studied. Its diet is mostly composed of invertebrates, supplemented with nectar and fruit. They often take over and renovate old babbler nests, in which the female lays and incubates two or rarely three eggs. (Full article...)