New Georgia White-eye

New Georgia White-eye
New Georgia White-eye
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Zosterops
Species: Z. kulambangrae
Binomial name
Zosterops kulambangrae
Rothschild & Hartert, 1901

The New Georgia White-eye or Solomon Islands White-eye (Zosterops kulambangrae) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to the New Georgia Islands in the Solomon Islands. It is also known as Zosterops rendovae but this name properly refers to the Grey-throated White-eye.[2][3]

There are three distinct subspecies. Z. k. kulambangrae is widespread in the New Georgia Group, occurring on Kolombangara, Vonavona, Kohinggo, New Georgia, Vangunu and Nggatokae. Z. k. paradoxus is found only on Rendova and Z. k. tetiparius only on Tetepare.[2] The three subspecies differ in their ability to disperse. While Z. k. kulambangrae regularly visits small islets, the other two subspecies have never been recorded away from their respective home islands which lie just 3.4 km apart.[4]

It is 12 cm long and mainly green above and olive-yellow below. It has a narrow white ring around the eye, blackish forehead and lores, a black bill and yellowish legs.[5]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2009). "Zosterops kulambangrae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/148283. Retrieved 9 January 2010. 
  2. ^ a b Internet Bird Collection. "Solomon White-eye (Zosterops kulambangrae)". http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/solomon-white-eye-zosterops-kulambangrae. Retrieved 9 January 2010. 
  3. ^ Mees, G. F. (1955). "The name of the white-eye from Rendova Island (Solomon Islands)". Zoologische Mededelingen 33 (28): 99–100. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/150019. 
  4. ^ Mayr, Ernst & Jared M. Diamond (2001). The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology and Biogeography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195141702. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AUUQsAuk9qsC&pg=PA492&dq=%22zosterops+rendovae%22&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&cd=3#v=onepage&q=%22zosterops%20rendovae%22&f=false. 
  5. ^ Doughty, Chris; Nicolas Day & Andrew Plant (1999). Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu & New Caledonia. London: Christopher Helm. 


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