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Brown Honeyeater

Lichmera indistincta · Family Meliphagidae

Lichmera indistincta

Family Meliphagidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Meliphagidae
GBIF occurrence records
599,012
Countries and territories with records
6
Brown Honeyeater
Aviceda · Brown Honeyeater kobble sep05.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Aviceda · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 599,012 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.54% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Lichmera indistincta combines the genus name Lichmera with the species epithet indistincta. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Lichmera; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Lichmera incana, Lichmera flavicans and Lichmera squamata.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 170 species of the family Meliphagidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Anthochaera carunculata. Its record count is 7.8 times the family average (76,364). The family Meliphagidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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