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The Fuscous Honeyeater is an altitudinal migrant, breeding in the ranges in summer and migrating in autumn to over-winter in the lowlands.

Virtually absent from the suburbs in summer, they first appear in April in small groups, often in the company of Yellow-faced and White-naped Honeyeaters. In winter they forage in noisy active flocks in eucalypt canopies. Numbers decline through July to September, and by October they have left the suburbs. As a result, breeding was not recorded during the survey.

Annual abundance has fluctuated greatly, perhaps partly as a result of large flocks appearing at random for a few weeks during winter. R=40. BR= 81.

 

 

 

 
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