Scarlet Honeyeater

A vivid scarlet red and black small honeyeater with whitish underparts. The females and immature birds are dull brown with dull white underparts and a reddish wash on the chin. In both sexes the tail is relatively short, the bill strongly curved, and the eye is dark. Usually seen alone or in pairs, but occasionally in flocks, high in trees. It feeds mainly on nectar and sometimes on fruit and insects. It tends to feed in the upper levels of the canopy, foraging in flowers and foliage, usually singly, in pairs or small flocks. Often evicted by larger, more aggressive honeyeaters such as friarbirds.