Regent Honeyeater

About

One of Australia's rarest birds, the regent honeyeater is a nomadic nectar-feeder of box-ironbark eucalypt woodland now confined to Victoria and New South Wales on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range. Blue Mountains National Park is called out by name as home to notable populations of this critically endangered species.

How to spot it

A medium honeyeater (20-24cm) with a glossy black head and neck, bare pink skin around the eye, and a black-and-lemon-yellow scalloped body with bright yellow edging in the wings and tail. Highly nomadic - follows flowering eucalypts (especially box and ironbark) and mistletoe, so sightings are unpredictable and clustered around good flowering years.

Found in

• Blue Mountains National Park