bell miner

English

Noun

bell miner (plural bell miners)

  1. A species of honeyeater, Manorina melanophrys, endemic to southeastern Australia.
    • 2016, Nigel Andrew, ‘Beware the Cassowary’, Literary Review, December:
      One species, the bell miner, is so keen on lerp and so protective of its sources that it fights off all other birds, including the small insectivorous ones that would eat the psyllids.
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