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Crescent
Honeyeater -
Phylidonyris Pyrrhoptera
Usually resident.
Moderately common. Male has white eyebrow, white-margined black crescent
each side of chest, yellow wing panel; female is duller, browner. Feed
in canopy, sometimes hard to see though call is loud and distinctive.
Voice: high-pitched,
emphatic 'egypt'.
Call
1: 'egypt' calls; Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and Little Raven also
audible



Photographs
and sounds courtesy Merilyn Browne.
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