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title: "Miodówka ciemna"
description: "Myzomela obscura — Ptaki. The dusky myzomela or dusky honeyeater (Myzomela obscura) is a small, brown bird that is a common resident of the Aru Islands, southern New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia, where there are two separated populations, one in the Top End, another from Cape York Peninsula along the east coast as far south as the New South Wales border, though the species is rare south of Rockhampton."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/dusky-myzomela
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Miodówka ciemna

> Myzomela obscura — Ptaki. The dusky myzomela or dusky honeyeater (Myzomela obscura) is a small, brown bird that is a common resident of the Aru Islands, southern New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia, where there are two separated populations, one in the Top End, another from Cape York Peninsula along the east coast as far south as the New South Wales border, though the species is rare south of Rockhampton.

- Scientific name: *Myzomela obscura*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1471
- Wikidata: [Q604518](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q604518)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12376](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12376)

## Names

- en: Dusky Myzomela
- de: Rußhonigfresser
- es: Mielero sombrío
- fr: Myzomèle ombré
- nl: Bruine dwerghoningeter
- pl: Miodówka ciemna

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1379), ID (3), PG (3)

## Summary

The dusky myzomela or dusky honeyeater (Myzomela obscura) is a small, brown bird that is a common resident of the Aru Islands, southern New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia, where there are two separated populations, one in the Top End, another from Cape York Peninsula along the east coast as far south as the New South Wales border, though the species is rare south of Rockhampton. The Moluccan myzomela (M. simplex), red-tinged myzomela (M. rubrotincta), and Biak myzomela (M. rubrobrunnea) were formerly considered conspecific, but was split as distinct species by the IOC in 2021.
Around 12 to 15 cm (5 to 6…

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

## Photo

![Miodówka ciemna](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dusky-myzomela/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260854076

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dusky-myzomela?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).