spiny-cheeked honeyeater

English

Acanthagenys rufogularis

Noun

spiny-cheeked honeyeater (plural spiny-cheeked honeyeaters)

1. A honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis, of mainland Australia.
   • 1997, The Bird Observer: The Official Organ of the Bird Observers' Club, numbers 771-792, page 41:

     Interesting records were reported of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters moving locally in the Port Phillip district, Vic during May and September 1998.

   • 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, page 23:

     The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honyeaters. […] Due to thir specialized gut, mistletoe birds can rapidly defecate strings of one to nine A.^[Amyema] quandang seeds, whereas spiny-cheeked honeyeaters experience considerable difficulty in defecating large numbers of seeds.

   • 2003, David Lindenmayer, editor, Wildlife on Farms: How to Conserve Native Animals, page 14:

     Two other species of birds (the painted honeyeater and the spiny-cheeked honeyeater) also feed on mistletoes.

Further reading

• Spiny-cheeked honeyeater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acanthagenys rufogularis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acanthagenys rufogularis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons