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Makira honeyeater

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ1065121 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Makira honeyeater (Meliarchus sclateri), also known as the San Cristobal honeyeater, is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.

It is endemic to Makira in the Solomon Islands.

References

BirdLife International 2004. Melidectes sclateri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Makira honeyeater” as species of bird. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Makira, honeyeater and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of bird. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1065121. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2006 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Makira honeyeater” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.