The
noisy miner (
Manorina melanocephala) is a bird in the
honeyeater family
endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia and feeds mostly
nectar, fruit and insects. This highly vocal species has a large range of songs, calls, scoldings and alarms, lives in large groups, and is territorial. Populations have grown in numerous places along this miner's range, and as such there is now an overabundance.
Photograph: JJ Harrison