Noisy Miner — Australian Bird Identification Guide

Bird guideNoisy Miner

A highly social and aggressively territorial honeyeater that lives in colonies and mobs intruders relentlessly.

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⚠️Not listed

🌿Endemic to Australia

🍃Indigenous: Dhiidjiinbawaa

At a glance

FamilyHoneyeaters

SizeMedium

RarityCommon

HabitatFound in a broad arc from Far North Queensland through New South Wales and Victoria to Tasmania and southeastern South Australia , and out to far north-west Queensland, the noisy miner primarily inhabits dry, open eucalypt forests that lack understory shrubs.

Best timeReported across most months in New South Wales, with no narrow seasonal peak.

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Recorded by Étienne Leroy

Range map

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1035472visible records

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Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.

Species notes

Overview

Aggressive and territorial; lives in colonies and vigorously defends territories against pretty much anything that moves. In inland areas, take note of the black crown; the similar looking Yellow-throated Miner has a pale gray crown. Noisy Miners are distributed across much of eastern Australia.