What does the Regent Honeyeater do?
The Regent Honeyeater feeds mainly on nectar and other plant sugars. It can also feed on insects and spiders, as well as native and cultivated fruits. It forages in flowers or foliage, but sometimes comes down to the ground to bathe in puddles or pools, and may also hawk for insects on the wing.
What is being done to protect the Regent Honeyeater?
The review concluded that the previous plan resulted in: 1) increased protection of regent honeyeater habitat; 2) extensive restoration plantings in key regent honeyeater breeding areas; 3) the establishment of a successful captive breeding program; and 4) increased knowledge of regent honeyeater ecology.
What is the classification of a Regent Honeyeater?
Anthochaera phrygia
Regent honeyeater/Scientific names
How many regent honeyeaters are left in the wild?
Regent honeyeaters are a striking bird, but there are only about 300 left in the wild and efforts are continuing to save the species from extinction.
What is the regent honeyeater habitat?
The Regent Honeyeater mainly inhabits temperate woodlands and open forests of the inland slopes of south-east Australia. Birds are also found in drier coastal woodlands and forests in some years.
What sound does a Regent Honeyeater make?
Typical bill-clicking and mewing calls.
Why are Regent Honeyeater endangered?
The Regent Honeyeater has been badly affected by land-clearing, with the clearance of the most fertile stands of nectar-producing trees and the poor health of many remnants, as well as competition for nectar from other honeyeaters, being the major problems. It is listed federally as an endangered species.
Why are Regent Honeyeaters endangered?
What do Regent Honeyeaters eat?
nectar
The Regent Honeyeater is a generalist forager, although it feeds mainly on the nectar from a relatively small number of eucalypts that produce high volumes of nectar. Key eucalypt species include Mugga Ironbark, Yellow Box, White Box and Swamp Mahogany. Other tree species may be regionally important.
Where does the regent honeyeater live?
east Australia
The Regent Honeyeater mainly inhabits temperate woodlands and open forests of the inland slopes of south-east Australia. Birds are also found in drier coastal woodlands and forests in some years.
How long do Regent Honeyeaters live?
11 years of age
So we know Regent Honeyeaters can live to at least 11 years of age in the wild (the oldest bird in captivity lived to 17).