4 Noisy Miner at Fadden, ACT
Identification history
| Manorina melanocephala | 16 Mar 2024 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Manorina melanocephala | 16 Mar 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Manorina melanocephala | 16 Mar 2024 | ChrisBlunt |
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Spotted at Hannah Community Park in Fadden
4 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
18 Mar 2024
Hi Chris. It looks like the bird is eating the feral honey bees. This is a very interesting behaviour. Can you confirm? Also, can you please add a separate sighting of the bees, and tick the box for "Bee nest present".
ChrisBlunt
wrote:
18 Mar 2024
Hi Michael. I took the photo from about 20m away so couldn't observe the behaviour at the time. It wasn't until I got home and cropped the photo that I could see the nest and what looks like the noisy miner which is a honeyeater eating a bee. Unfortunately, this photo is now a few years old so the nest is unlikely to still be there. Incidentally, I have seen other nests over the past few years in the same area which I do have photos of.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
19 Mar 2024
Thanks Chris. Honey bees are very persistent. There is a Honey Bee nest on Urambi Hills which has been in a tree hollow at least 10 years. We are quite interested in feral bees because they are a threat to insect biodiversity and also take over tree hollows and exclude native birds and mammals. So recording the location of the bees nest would be of value.
ChrisBlunt
wrote:
19 Mar 2024
Hi Michael, thanks for enlightening me. I wasn't aware that nests could still be active years later. I have now added a separate sighting as you suggested.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.117451-35.407451
- Places Fadden, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 16 Oct 2018 01:05 PM Recorded on
- ChrisBlunt Recorded by
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Species information
- Manorina melanocephala Scientific name
- Noisy Miner Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 895.3m Recorded at altitude
- 311 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Manorina (Myzantha) melanocephala
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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