White-eared Honeyeater

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Nesoptilotis

eBird Code

whehon1

Subspecies (5)

• Nesoptilotis leucotis depauperata

  eastern and southeastern Australia (Porcupine Gorge, northeastern Queensland inland of the Great Dividing Range to northern Victoria and west to Mount Lofty Range, Flinders Ranges)

• Nesoptilotis leucotis leucotis

  coastal southeastern Australia (southern South Australia to southeastern Queensland)

• Nesoptilotis leucotis novaenorciae

  southwestern Australia (Kalbarri to Eucla), except coastal forests

• Nesoptilotis leucotis schoddei

  central southern Australia (Eyre Peninsula, Gawler Ranges, and Yellabinna region)

• Nesoptilotis leucotis thomasi

  Kangaroo Island (off South Australia, south-central Australia)