During breeding displays, pairs sometimes fly into the air together and "literally loop and loop" 1946, p. 392 and a male may soar "singing, into the air from the top of a tree, and suddenly always turning over backward in its descent". Males advertising territorial display will, similarly, fly singing vertically into the air. Actions in the air appear similar to the black honeyeater [Burgess, 1946 and flight is said to resemble that of the critically endangered regent honeyeater ("Anthochaera phrygia").