Gallery of log for Native Fauna Naming Fun

23-May-13
Sign on Kingaroy Cooyar Road a few klm south of Kingaroy Qld.
The bird known to most of us as the "Bellbird" is actually a Bell Miner. (Manorina Melamophrys) It is a colonial honey eater endemic to Southeastern Australia. they were given their common name because they feed exclusively on dome like coverings of certain psy;;id bugs, referred to as "bell lerps",that feed on eucalyptus sap from leaves.
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Meliphagidae
Genus Manorina
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