Despite this, the ecoregion still contains several large tracts of native vegetation, with notable diversity seen among lizards, ants, and honeyeaters (Meliphagidae). From Wordnik.com. [Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee] Reference
Given the abundance of nectar-producing plants, it is not surprising that among birds honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) are highly speciated, particularly Lichenostomus and Meliphaga spp. From Wordnik.com. [Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee] Reference
The avifauna of the ecoregion has a clear Australasian flavor, with representatives of several Australasian families including Ptilonorhynchidae, Eopsaltridae, Meliphagidae, and Paradisaeidae. From Wordnik.com. [Huon Peninsula montane rain forests] Reference
The avifauna of the ecoregion has a clear Australasian flavor, including representatives of several Australasian families such as Ptilonorhynchidae, Eopsaltridae, Meliphagidae, and Paradisaeidae. From Wordnik.com. [Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests] Reference
The avifauna of the ecoregion has a clear Australasian flavor, including representatives of several Australasian families such as Ptilonorhynchidae, Eopsaltriidae, Meliphagidae, and Paradisaeidae. From Wordnik.com. [Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests] Reference
The avifauna of the ecoregion has a clear Australasian flavor, including representatives of several Australasian families including Ptilonorhynchidae, Eopsaltridae, Meliphagidae, and Paradisaeidae. From Wordnik.com. [Vogelkop montane rain forests] Reference
The kwongan vegetation contains a wide range of nectar-feeding animals, including insects, honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), honey possums (Tarsipes rostratus), and pygmy possums (Cercartetus concinnus). From Wordnik.com. [Southwest Australia woodlands] Reference
In the Australian region there are also two flower-feeding groups, the Meliphagidae, or honey-suckers, and the brush-tongued lories (Trichoglossidae). From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
For example, among the commonest birds in Lombock were white cockatoos and three species of Meliphagidae or honeysuckers, belonging to family groups which are entirely absent from the western or Indo-Malayan region of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference
(Meliphagidae) are genuine flower-haunters, and the Australian flora is more brilliant in colour display than that of most tropical regions, yet these birds are, as a rule, of dull colours, not superior on the average to our grain-eating finches. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
In the eastern hemisphere, also, we have the babbling-thrushes (Timaliidae), the cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae), the honey-suckers (Meliphagidae), and several other smaller groups which are certainly not coloured above the average standard of temperate birds. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Family Common Name Species Megapodiidae Red-billed brush-turkey Talegalla cuvieri Loriidae Striated lorikeet Charmosyna multistriata Alcedinidae Little paradise-kingfisher Tanysiptera hydrocharis Meliphagidae Spot-breasted meliphaga Meliphaga mimikae Paradisaeidae Greater bird-of-paradise Paradisaea apoda An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests] Reference
Meliphagidae. From Wordnik.com. [Southeastern Papuan rain forests] Reference
Family Common Name Species Accipitridae White-bellied goshawk Accipiter haplochrous Columbidae Red-bellied fruit-dove Ptilinopus greyii Columbidae New Caledonian imperial-pigeon Ducula goliath Psittacidae Horned parakeet Eunymphicus cornutus Aegothelidae New Caledonian owlet-nightjar Aegotheles savesi Campephagidae Melanesian cuckoo-shrike Coracina caledonica Campephagidae New Caledonian cuckoo-shrike Coracina analis Campephagidae Long-tailed triller Lalage leucopyga Sylviidae New Caledonian grassbird Megalurulus mariei Acanthizidae Fan-tailed gerygone Gerygone flavolateralis Eopsaltriidae Yellow-bellied robin Eopsaltria flaviventris Monarchidae Southern shrikebill Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides Monarchidae New Caledonian flycatcher Myiagra caledonica Rhipiduridae Streaked fantail Rhipidura spilodera Pachycephalida New Caledonian whistler Pachycephala caledonica Zosteropidae Green-backed white-eye Zosterops xanthochrous Meliphagidae New Caledonian myzomela Myzomela caledonica Meliphagi. From Wordnik.com. [New Caledonia dry forests] Reference
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