---
title: "Succiamiele facciagialla"
description: "Caligavis chrysops — Uccelli. The yellow-faced honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops) is a small to medium-sized bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/yellow-faced-honeyeater
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Succiamiele facciagialla

> Caligavis chrysops — Uccelli. The yellow-faced honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops) is a small to medium-sized bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae.

- Scientific name: *Caligavis chrysops*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 10467
- Wikidata: [Q27075233](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075233)
- iNaturalist taxon: [508969](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/508969)

## Names

- en: Yellow-faced Honeyeater
- de: Dreistreifiger Honigfresser
- es: Mielero carigualdo
- fr: Méliphage à joues d'or
- it: Succiamiele facciagialla
- pl: Maskowik pręgolicy

## Countries with the most observations

AU (10154)

## Summary

The yellow-faced honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops) is a small to medium-sized bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It takes its common and scientific names from the distinctive yellow stripes on the sides of its head. Its loud, clear call often begins twenty or thirty minutes before dawn. It is widespread across eastern and southeastern Australia, in open sclerophyll forests from coastal dunes to high-altitude subalpine areas, and woodlands along creeks and rivers. Comparatively short-billed for a honeyeater, it is thought to have adapted to a diet of flies, spiders, and beetles, as well as nectar and pollen…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-faced_honeyeater

## Photo

![Succiamiele facciagialla](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-faced-honeyeater/medium.jpg)

Photo: John Cull · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/188341483

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-faced-honeyeater?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).