- Passeriformes
- Meliphagidae
grovstripehonningeter Ptiloprora perstriata
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Identifikasjon
A medium-sized honeyeater of montane forest and subalpine scrub. Gray color with heavy streaks over the whole body other than the plain throat, rufous flanks, long, curved bill and a gray eye. Forages at flowering shrubs and cocks its tail. Similar to Rufous-backed and Rufous-sided Honeyeaters, but Gray-streaked is larger with a gray eye and lacks any rufous on the upperparts. Call, a single, falling, plaintive whistle “piiiiiiuuuuu” sometimes given in a falling series. Also gives a nasal “wek!”.