Grey-fronted honeyeater

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

{{Speciesbox

|name=Grey-fronted honeyeater

|image=Grey-fronted Honeyeater - Yathong Nature Reserve.jpg

|image_caption=Yathong Nature Reserve, NSW

|status=LC

|status_system=IUCN3.1

|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Ptilotula plumula |volume=2016 |page=e.T22704091A93952493 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22704091A93952493.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

|genus=Ptilotula

|species=plumula

|authority=(Gould, 1841)

|synonyms=*Lichenostomus plumulus Gould, 1841

}}

The grey-fronted honeyeater (Ptilotula plumula) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.

The grey-fronted honeyeater was originally described in 1841 by English ornithologist John Gould as Lichenostomus plumulus. It was moved to the genus Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that Lichenostomus was polyphyletic.{{cite journal |last1=Nyári |first1=Á.S. |last2=Joseph |first2=L. |year= 2011 |title= Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and historical development of Australo–Papuan bird communities |journal= Emu |volume= 111 |issue= 3|pages=202–211 |doi=10.1071/mu10047|s2cid=85333285 }}{{cite web|editor1-last=Gill |editor1-first=Frank |editor2-last=Donsker |editor2-first=David |title=Honeyeaters |work= World Bird List Version 6.1 |url= http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/honeyeaters/ |publisher=International Ornithologists' Union|access-date= 28 January 2016 }}