The New Holland Honeyeater as its name suggests feed on honey as well as small insects. Honeyeaters are very agile and can move quickly through the shrubs. They have thin sharp beaks to help in extracting nectar from flowers.

Left: New Holland Honey Eaters like visiting flowers in suburban back yards. This one is surveying the shrubs from a gate. Right: This New Holland Honey Eater is sheltering in some shrubs. Flowering shrubs provide perfect homes for Honey Eaters.

The New Holland Honeyeaters often feed in groups and they like to visit a variety of native flowering plants. Therefore, they are very common throughout the Blue Mountains especially in woodlands, parks and flowering gardens.

Their strong, sharp and high-pitched chirp can often be heard within the shrubs.