Regent honeyeater
Specimen opposite end to the one with wings outstretched.
The regent honeyeater is now one of the rarest of all honeyeaters. It has a patchy distribution from South East Queensland to North East Victoria. It is now extinct in South Australia. It lives in dry, sclerophyll, Eucalyptus forests on inland hill slopes, often near moisture. Its population is now below 500 birds as a result of habitat destruction and fragmentation which allows larger and more aggressive honeyeaters to invade. There is a captive breeding and reintroduction programme to try to save the species.
This specimen was donated by Lord Stamfordham in 1916.
The regent honeyeater is now one of the rarest of all honeyeaters. It has a patchy distribution from South East Queensland to North East Victoria. It is now extinct in South Australia. It lives in dry, sclerophyll, Eucalyptus forests on inland hill slopes, often near moisture. Its population is now below 500 birds as a result of habitat destruction and fragmentation which allows larger and more aggressive honeyeaters to invade. There is a captive breeding and reintroduction programme to try to save the species.
This specimen was donated by Lord Stamfordham in 1916.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 29/1916/3b
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collector Excavator
- Stamfordham, Lord
- Common Name
- regent honeyeater
- Simple Name
- bird
