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Purple-gaped Honeyeater
Lichenostomus cratitius
Least ConcernThe Purple-gaped Honeyeater is a nectar-feeding honeyeater that also eats fruit and insects and helps pollinate native plants in southwestern Australia. It uses its brush-tipped tongue to exploit flowers and often follows seasonal blooms; local movements can make it conspicuous when trees are in flower. Fun fact: honeyeaters are important pollinators across Australasia and the Pacific.
- Family
- Meliphagidae
- Group
- Honeyeaters
- Range
- Purple-gaped Honeyeater Range — Resident range in southwestern Australia
- Population
- ≈ Unknown