wattlebird

Some other birds also have wattles, although they are not known by the term "wattlebird".

The female Yellow Wattlebird is much smaller than the male.

It was formerly lumped with the Little Wattlebird which it closely resembles.

Other names include the Long or Tasmanian Wattlebird.

Therefore, the most likely threat to the Yellow Wattlebird is unusual climatic conditions that can reduce food availability suddenly.

'Wattlebird' has been erroneously identified as a cultivar of Buddleja x weyeriana in some treatises.

They have diaspores with fleshy appendages indicating dispersal by birds, including the red wattlebird, and ants (myrmecochory).

The Yellow Wattlebird is the largest of the honeyeaters, and is endemic to Tasmania.

The Little Wattlebird is a medium to large honeyeater, but the smallest wattlebird.

Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

However, genetic analysis shows that its ancestry is in fact nested within the wattlebird genus Anthochaera, and hence it is correctly described as Anthochaera phrygia.

It is one of three species of New Zealand Wattlebird, the other two being the endangered Tieke (saddleback) and the extinct Huia.

The Little Wattlebird is found in Banksia/Eucalypt woodlands, heathlands, tea-tree scrub, sandplain-heaths, lantana thickets, wild tobacco, parks and gardens.

The Yellow Wattlebird is similar in appearance to the Little Wattlebird and the Red Wattlebird.

The nest of the yellow wattlebird is made by the female alone, and is a large, open saucer-shaped structure made of twigs and bark that are bound by wool.

Honeyeaters are common visitors, particularly the New Holland Honeyeater, as well as the Fuscous Honeyeater, Western Wattlebird and Western Spinebill.

The Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera), also known as the Brush Wattlebird, is a honeyeater, a passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae.

The female wattlebird generally constructs the nest, a loose, untidy cup of twigs lined with shredded bark and placed from 1 to 10m high in the fork of a banksia, tea-tree or eucalypt sapling.

A variety of pollinators have been recorded visiting the flower spikes, including New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae), Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata), native and European honey bees, wasps and ants.

The Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata), also known as Barkingbird or Gillbird, is a honeyeater; a group of birds found mainly in Australia and New Guinea which have highly developed brush-tipped tongues adapted for nectar feeding.

Species of wattlebird include the Little Wattlebird, the Red Wattlebird, the Western Wattlebird, and the Yellow Wattlebird.

Several other honeyeaters were recorded on B. aemula inflorescences for The Banksia Atlas, including the New Holland, Brown, White-cheeked, and Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters, Noisy Miner, Little Wattlebird and Noisy Friarbird.