Yellow-tinted honeyeater

The yellow-tinted honeyeater (Ptilotula flavescens) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in northern Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, and Queensland) and Papua New Guinea.^[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Yellow-tinted honeyeater
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Meliphagidae
Genus:	Ptilotula
Species:	P. flavescens
Binomial name
Ptilotula flavescens (Gould, 1840)
Synonyms
Lichenostomus flavescens

The yellow-tinted honeyeater was previously included in the genus Lichenostomus, but was moved to Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.^[3][4]

Gallery

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  Ptilotula flavescens, Gregory River, Queensland