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Alternative name: Creamy-throated White-eye

Includes Bacan White-eye, Halmahera White-eye, Morotai White-eye, Obi White-eye

Photo by martinuk
Foli, Halmahera, Maluku Utara, Indonesia, October, 2009
Zosterops atriceps

Identification

Small passerines exhibiting fairly typical White-eye behaviour. See below for detailed description

Distribution

Halmahera and other islands in the northern Moluccas, Indonesia.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies [1] which may be best tested as separate species [2]:

  • Z. a. dehaani: "Morotai White-eye". Morotai
  • Z. a. fuscifrons: "Halmahera White-eye". Halmahera
  • Z. a. atriceps: "Bacan White-eye".

The population on Obi belongs to an undescribed (sub)species.

Habitat

Lowland Forest.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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