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White-fronted Chat
Epthianura albifrons (Jardine & Selby, 1828)
Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
White-fronted Chat, Epthianura albifrons, is a honeyeater of southern Australia, ranging from south-west Western Australia through eastern New South Wales and Tasmania. It belongs to the family Meliphagidae and was first described in 1828. The male is marked by a white face and a black band across the breast. It lives in open country with low vegetation, including saltmarshes, coastal dunes, swamp edges, mangroves and inland salt lakes. In the breeding season, the female makes a concealed cup nest in a tussock or low shrub, and both parents care for the young.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
- Breeding range
- Australasia: sw WA to ec NSW and Tasmania (s Australia)
