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Grey-headed Honeyeater
Ptilotula keartlandi (North, 1895)
Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
Grey-headed Honeyeater, Ptilotula keartlandi, is a honeyeater of western and central Australia, breeding from north-west Western Australia to north-central Queensland. It is a bird of Eucalyptus scrub and woodland, especially in stony hills and timbered gullies, and it also uses sand-plains when plants are in flower. The species has a grey crown, a black face mask, and a thin yellow plume beside the head. It is usually seen alone or in pairs, though small groups may gather at food.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
- Breeding range
- Australasia: nw WA to nc QLD (w, c Australia)
