spiny-cheeked honeyeater

plural spiny-cheeked honeyeaters

1. A honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis, of mainland Australia.

   Two other species of birds (the painted honeyeater and the spiny-cheeked honeyeater) also feed on mistletoes.

   2003, David Lindenmayer, editor, Wildlife on Farms: How to Conserve Native Animals, page 14

   2 more examples

   Interesting records were reported of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters moving locally in the Port Phillip district, Vic during May and September 1998.

   1997, The Bird Observer: The Official Organ of the Bird Observers' Club, numbers 771-792, page 41

   The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honyeaters.[…]Due to thir specialized gut, mistletoe birds can rapidly defecate strings of one to nine A.^([Amyema]) quandang seeds, whereas spiny-cheeked honeyeaters experience considerable difficulty in defecating large numbers of seeds.

   1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, page 23