Little Friarbird
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The Little Friarbird, Philemon citreogularis, is the smallest of the group of giant Australian honeyeaters called friarbird
s. It occurs in open forest and woodland across eastern Australia
and southern New Guinea
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The Little Friarbird can be distinguished by its small size and the lack of a knob on its bill.
Friarbird
The friarbirds are about 15 species of relatively large honeyeaters in the genus Philemon. Additionally, the single member of the genus Melitograis is called the White-streaked Friarbird. Friarbirds are found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and New Caledonia...
s. It occurs in open forest and woodland across eastern Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and southern New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
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The Little Friarbird can be distinguished by its small size and the lack of a knob on its bill.