Green-backed Honeyeater
A species of Straightbills Scientific name : Glycichaera fallax Genus : Straightbills
Green-backed Honeyeater, A species of Straightbills
Botanical name: Glycichaera fallax
Genus: Straightbills
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Description
Description
The green-backed honeyeater (Glycichaera fallax) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is monotypic within the genus Glycichaera. It is found in the Aru Islands, New Guinea and northern Cape York Peninsula. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Size
13 cm
Feeding Habits
Green-backed Honeyeater primarily consumes insects and small fruits, like those of the Poikilospermum plant, and exploits eucalypts for nectar or insects. Known for active canopy foraging, it gleans and sally-hovers to catch prey. Exhibits social foraging behaviors, sometimes associating with other insectivorous birds.
Habitat
The green-backed Honeyeater predominantly thrives in primary and secondary tropical rainforests, including their edges, and is often found in areas where the forest meets clearings or roads. It occupies diverse forest types such as gallery forests, semi-deciduous vine thickets, and semi-deciduous mesophyll vine forests. In addition to rainforest environments, the green-backed Honeyeater is also adapted to monsoon forests, swamp forests, and riparian scrub. It can occasionally be found in mangroves and at the fringes of eucalypt forests that border rainforests. The species is commonly associated with forest clearings and secondary growth, particularly in areas undergoing regrowth after slash-and-burn agriculture.
Dite type
Frugivorous
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Honeyeaters Genus
Straightbills Species
Green-backed Honeyeater