Lichenostomus ornatus The yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.

[4] It has an olive-green head, with a faint yellow line under the dark eye, grey-green upperparts, and heavily streaked grey-brown underparts.

[5] They occur in sedentary, colonial groups, which may relocate in response to harsh conditions.

[6] They are noisy and conspicuous, and will jointly defend nesting or feeding territories, by engaging in communal wing quivering displays.

[5] Yellow-plumed honeyeaters build an open, cup-shaped nest suspended by the rim from foliage or from a thin fork of mallee eucalypts and other small shrubs.