Blue Eyed Honeyeater

Blue-faced honeyeater A medium-sized songbird with a prominent blue eye-patch sits on pebbled concrete. Subspecies cyanotis, Canungra, Queensland Conservation status Least Concern IUCN 3.1[1] Scientific classification edit Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Meliphagidae Genus: Entomyzon Swainson, 1825 Species: E. cyanotis Binomial name Entomyzon cyanotis Latham, 1801 map of Australia showing multicolored area across north and east of the country, and New Guinea Range subspecies indicated cyanotis griseigularis intergrade zone albipennis Synonyms Melithreptus cyanotis Gracula cyanotis Turdus cyanous Merops cyanops The blue-faced honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis, also colloquially known as the bananabird, is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It is the only member of its genus, and it is most closely related to honeyeaters of the genus Melithreptus. Three subspecies are recognised. At around 29.5 cm 11.6 in in length, the blue-faced species is large for a honeyeater. Its plumage is distinctive, 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.

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