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Slender-billed White-eye - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by Ken Doy
Norfolk Island, May 2016
Zosterops tenuirostris

Identification

13–15 cm (5-6 in)

  • White eye-ring broken by black lores

Distribution

Norfolk Island.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Moist lowland forests, tall secondary growth and forest fragments.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of invertebrates and also fruit, such as lemons, loquat and guavas.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2016)

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