 In a study of birds foraging in suburban gardens , the noisy miner was seen to spend more time in banksia , grevillea and eucalypt species , and when in flower , <unk> , than in other plants including <unk> . Most time was spent <unk> the foliage of eucalypts , and noisy miners were significantly more abundant in sites where eucalypts were present . The noisy miner can meet most of its nutritional needs from manna , <unk> and <unk> gathered from the foliage of eucalypts . Lower numbers of noisy miner were recorded at <unk> and <unk> than other large honeyeaters such as little <unk> ( <unk> <unk> ) and red <unk> ( <unk> <unk> ) . 
