English

Acanthagenys rufogularis

Noun

spiny-cheeked honeyeater ‎(plural spiny-cheeked honeyeaters)

1. A honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis, of mainland Australia.
   • 1997, The Bird Observer: The Official Organ of the Bird Observers' Club, Issues 771-792, page 41,

     Interesting records were reported of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters moving locally in the Port Phillip district, Vic during May and September 1998.

   • 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, page 23,

     The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honyeaters. […] Due to thir specialized gut, mistletoe birds can rapidly defecate strings of one to nine A.^[Amyema] quandang seeds, whereas spiny-cheeked honeyeaters experience considerable difficulty in defecating large numbers of seeds.

   • 2003, David Lindenmayer (editor), Wildlife on Farms: How to Conserve Native Animals, page 14,

     Two other species of birds (the painted honeyeater and the spiny-cheeked honeyeater) also feed on mistletoes.