Bird photographed by Jo lle Dugauquier. The singing honeyeater is Australia's most widespread honeyeater, ranging across the continent west of the great dividing range from coast to semi-arid interior, cultivated land and gardens. It's a medium-sized honeyeater. Its head is distinctive, with long black stripe through eye and down nape over shorter yellow stripe from eye to ear-coverts. Below this runs a less conspicuous pale grey stripe, widening as it reaches nape.
Sexes are similar.
Throughout it's range it frequents open scrubby shrubberies' wether in mallee or mulga or even coastal heaths. Singing Honeyeaters are rather sedentry in small numbers of two to five birds which feed solitarily. Foraging is done in low foliage where they switch between nectar, insects and fruit as the opportunity offers. Insects taken include beetles, weevles, moths, caterpillars, wasps, ants, flies and lerps. The honeyeaters also eat about 40 species of fleshy fruits.