---
title: "Succiamiele piumegialle"
description: "Ptilotula ornata — Uccelli. The yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/yellow-plumed-honeyeater
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Succiamiele piumegialle

> Ptilotula ornata — Uccelli. The yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.

- Scientific name: *Ptilotula ornata*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 1262
- Wikidata: [Q27075260](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075260)
- iNaturalist taxon: [508975](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/508975)

## Names

- en: Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
- de: Gelbscheitelhonigfresser
- es: Mielero Adornado
- fr: Méliphage orné
- it: Succiamiele piumegialle
- nl: Malleehoningeter
- pt: Lichenostomus ornatus
- pl: Złotouch kreskowany

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1227)

## Summary

The yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia, where it inhabits temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
The yellow-plumed honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus, but was moved to Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Joshua S. Martin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197047635

## Machine access

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