PASSERIFORMES: Meliphagidae

Ramsayornis modestus  

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)
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© Geoff Walker 2015
Lockhart River, QLD (Jan, 2015)

A Brown-backed Honeyeater busy building a nest. Great care is shown by birds before they actually go to the nest in order to not easily give away the location of the nest to predators.

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Dangerous location

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Nest builders

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater at Nest.

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater building Nest

Brown-backed Honeyeater (Ramsayornis modestus)

Brown-backed Honeyeater