Tawny-crowned Honeyeater - the very mention suggests the windswept wide open spaces where they live and their distinctive flute-like songs drifting high in the air. Essentially a bird of the heathlands where emergent shrubs rarely exceed two metres in height - ranging around mainly coastal southern Australia and Tasmania from far NE NSW around to Shark Bay in WA.

Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters often nest quite close to the ground and even spend some time on the ground feeding on low-flowering herbs and shrubs.When advertising territory, the males fly high in the air and then, singing all the while, spiral back to earth on outstretched wings.