They live throughout rainforest, dry sclerophyll ("Eucalyptus") forest, open woodland, "Pandanus" thickets, paperbarks, mangroves, watercourses, and wetter areas of semi-arid regions, as well as parks, gardens, and golf courses in urban areas. The understory in eucalypt-dominated woodland, where the blue-faced honeyeater is found, is most commonly composed of grasses, such as "Triodia", but sometimes it is made up of shrubs or small trees, such as grevilleas, paperbarks, wattles, Cooktown ironwood ("Erythrophleum chlorostachys") or billygoat plum ("Terminalia ferdinandiana"). One study in Kakadu National Park found that blue-faced honeyeaters inhabited mixed stands of eucalypts and "Pandanus", but were missing from pure stands of either plant.