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Lewin's Honeyeater
Meliphaga lewinii · Family Meliphagidae
Meliphaga lewinii
Family Meliphagidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Meliphagidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 539,894
- Countries and territories with records
- 6
About this species
This species has 539,894 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.49% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Meliphaga lewinii combines the genus name Meliphaga with the species epithet lewinii. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Meliphaga; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Meliphaga notata, Meliphaga gracilis and Meliphaga analoga.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 170 species of the family Meliphagidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Anthochaera carunculata. Its record count is 7.1 times the family average (76,364). The family Meliphagidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.