Is this a White naped HE?

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pandpm
Is this a White naped HE?

Can anyone ID this little bird. I live in the Perth suburbs.

It comes on my birdbath in the company of other littlies: Brown HEs, New Holland HEs, Silvereyes.

I'm of the opinion it may be a young White naped HE, only because (on rare occasions) I've seen them on the bird bath previously. But having said that, it looks nothing like a WNHE really, but then it looks nothing like anything else either ! I've looked thru all my books & they show an immature WNHE looking very like the adult. I've googled it and again all immmatures pictured look similar to the adult.

It has an almost black head & similar dark dots on its cheeks.

Hope you can help

Pauline

https://youtu.be/KaGP9rEOC38

Rick N
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Maybe Juvenile Brown-headed.

al
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Could be a leucistic white-naped honeyeater.

HelloBirdy
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I have no idea, but very pretty and cleary not a 'normal' local honeyeater

Ryu
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zosterops
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maybe it's some rare vagrant

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