The black honeyeater is the sole species in the genus Sugomel. The species is endemic to Australia, and ranges widely across the arid areas of the continent. It is considered to be of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Endangered species. The male is black and white while the female is a speckled grey-brown; immature birds look like the female.
About Black honeyeater in brief
The black honeyeater is the sole species in the genus Sugomel. The species is endemic to Australia, and ranges widely across the arid areas of the continent. It is considered to be of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Endangered species. The male is black and white while the female is a speckled grey-brown; immature birds look like the female. It has a long curved bill to reach the base of tubular flowers such as those of the emu bush. It also takes insects in the air, and regularly eats ash left behind at campfires. Cup-shaped nests are built in the forks of small trees or shrubs. Both sexes feed and care for the young. The population appears to be decreasing, but it is sufficiently numerous and widespread that it is not considered a species of concern by the IUCN. It was first described by English naturalist John Gould in 1838 as Myzomela nigra, using as the specific epithet the Latin adjective niger ‘black’ The genus name was derived from the Ancient Greek words myzo ‘to suckle’ and meli ‘honey’, and referred to the bird’s nectivorous habits. In 1967 ornithologist Finn Salomonsen transferred the species to the genus Certhionyx. In 2004 genetic study of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of honeyeaters, the three species were found not to be closely related to one another.
A 2017 genetic study using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA indicated that the ancestor of the black Honeyeater diverged from that of the scaly-crowned honeyeaters just under a million years ago. The bird has been adopted as the official name by the IOC by the official birdlist, but is also known as the black myzova, Papua New Guinea and Papuan black honey eater. It’s a different but related but related species. It is between 10 and 13 centimetres long, with an average wingspan of 19 centimetre. The black honeyEater has a small rounded head and slender neck set on a plump body, with a short, short, cleft tail and a pointed pointed charcoal-coloured bill. It weighs around 9 grams and has an average weight of 5 grams, and has a relatively relatively long, slender, down-curved bill, a small round head and a small, rounded head, a short neck and a short plump neck on a short body. It can be found in Western Australia, South Australia, New Guinea, Papua Papua and New Guinea. It is found in open woodland and shrubland, particularly in areas where the Emu bush and related species occur. It is also found in Indonesia and Papua Papua, where it is known as Theomela, Papuan Black Myzva, or Papuan Myzova.
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