Listen to the Indonesian honeyeater
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About the Indonesian honeyeater
The Indonesian honeyeater is a bird in the family Meliphagidae (order Passeriformes).
What does the Indonesian honeyeater sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The brown honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It belongs to the honeyeaters, a group of birds which have highly developed brush-tipped tongues adapted for nectar feeding. Honeyeaters are found mainly in Australia, New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia, but the brown honeyeater is unique in that it also occurs on the island of Bali, making it the only honeyeater to be found west of the Wallace Line, the biogeographical boundary between the Australian-Papuan and Oriental zoogeographical regions.
More from the family Meliphagidae
Frequently asked questions
What does an Indonesian honeyeater sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Indonesian honeyeater on this page, including its call. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
What family does the Indonesian honeyeater belong to?
The Indonesian honeyeater (Lichmera limbata) belongs to the family Meliphagidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Burrup, Shire of Roebourne, Western Australia, Australia by Peter Russell – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q941976 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Brown honeyeater – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Lip Kee Yap from Singapore, Republic of Singapore – CC BY 2.0