Blue-faced honeyeater: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the blue-faced honeyeater lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Entomyzon cyanotis
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Mass	114 g (male organism, adult weight); 97 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Meliphagidae

Where does the blue-faced honeyeater live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the blue-faced honeyeater in 1 country or territory across Oceania.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a blue-faced honeyeater?

Wikidata records the following for the blue-faced honeyeater: mass 114 g (male organism, adult weight); 97 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the blue-faced honeyeater endangered?

The blue-faced honeyeater’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the blue-faced honeyeater?

The blue-faced honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Meliphagidae, genus Entomyzon. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the blue-faced honeyeater

The blue-faced honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis), also colloquially known as the bananabird, is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It is the only member of its genus, and it is most closely related to honeyeaters of the genus Melithreptus. Three subspecies are recognised. At around 29.5 cm (11.6 in) in length, the blue-faced species is large for a honeyeater. Its plumage is distinctive, with olive upperparts, white underparts, and a black head and throat with white nape and cheeks. Males and females are similar in external appearance. Adults have a blue area of bare skin on each side of the face readily distinguishing them from juveniles, which have yellow or green patches of bare skin.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Blue-faced honeyeater (revision 1379919640), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q774382 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).