Larry's Gallery:   Brown-headed Honeyeater (4/5)

PASSERIFORMES: Meliphagidae

Melithreptus brevirostris  

The temperature at the Dunach Nature Conservation Reserve near Clunes was 42 degrees centigrade when we located these birds perched in the shade above a waterhole.

Normally an active bird they only moved to drop down to the water for a drink before regaining their position in deep shade.