#1358 · 🐦 birds
Noisy Miner
🇳🇱 Tuinhoningeter ·Manorina melanocephala
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what is it?
The noisy miner ( Manorina melanocephala ) is a bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, and is endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia. This miner is a grey bird, with a black head, orange-yellow beak and feet, a distinctive yellow patch behind the eye, and white tips on the tail feathers. The Tasmanian subspecies has a more intense yellow panel in the wing, and a broader white tip to the tail. Males, females and juveniles are similar in...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 33,540 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 63 g.
- Scientifically named by John Latham in 1801 (225 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Noisy Miner
- Nederlands
- Tuinhoningeter
- scientific name
- Manorina melanocephala
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Meliphagidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 33,540
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 63 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1801 by John Latham
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Meliphagidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 12231, Wikidata Q998616, GBIF 2487365, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.