This honeyeater lives in eucalypt forests and open woodland of eastern Australia. Its black face and yellow ear tufts stand out; it feeds on nectar and insects from leaves and bark.
It is olive-brown above and yellowish gray below, with a black facial mask and bright yellow ear tufts and sides of the throat.
It inhabits open dry forest and woodland dominated by eucalypts, often near water. In tree and shrub canopies it feeds on nectar from eucalypt flowers and insects from leaves and bark.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.