Spiny Cheeked Honeyeater
In the trees surrounding the old homestead, Balcanoona.
The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is heard more often than it is seen. The jerky, musical call of the species has been described as a “liquid and guttural gurgling jumble”, which may stop abruptly, almost as though the bird has run out of breath, and then it suddenly starts up again. Sometimes Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters sing ‘antiphonally’, with one bird singing a snatch of song, which is immediately followed by another bird nearby singing another phrase, so that the song sounds as though it is being sung by a single bird.
Birdlife Australia
Spiny Cheeked Honeyeater
In the trees surrounding the old homestead, Balcanoona.
The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is heard more often than it is seen. The jerky, musical call of the species has been described as a “liquid and guttural gurgling jumble”, which may stop abruptly, almost as though the bird has run out of breath, and then it suddenly starts up again. Sometimes Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters sing ‘antiphonally’, with one bird singing a snatch of song, which is immediately followed by another bird nearby singing another phrase, so that the song sounds as though it is being sung by a single bird.
Birdlife Australia