Layard's White-eye

Taxobox
name = Layard's White-eye


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = [BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/52439/all "Zosterops explorator"] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 27 July 2007.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Zosteropidae
genus = "Zosterops"
species = "Z. explorator"
binomial = "Zosterops explorator"
binomial_authority = Layard, 1875
synonyms = The Layard's White-eye ("Zosterops explorator") is a species of passerine bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. The species is also known as the Fiji White-eye. [Pacific Birds (2001) [http://www.pacificbirds.com/fiji1.htmlSummary List of the Birds of Fiji] . Downloaded 22 July 2008] It is endemic to the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Kadavu, and Ovalau in Fiji, where it is a common bird of forests.Pratt, H., Bruner, P & Berrett, D. (1987) "The Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific" Princeton University Press:Princeton ISBN 0-691-08402-5] Where it co-occurs with the closely related Silvereye it is more common in denser forest.

It is a typical small white-eye of the genus "Zosterops", similar in appearance to the Silvereye, although the plumage is much yellower, it is chunkier and has a complete eye-ring. The back is olive green and the throat and belly yellow. The call is described as "a high pitched "seeu-seeu".

The Layard's White-eye feeds by gleaning insects from shrubs and trees. It will join mixed-species feeding flocks with other Fijian birds, including Silvereyes. It also feeds lower down in the trees than Silvereyes. [Langham (1989) " [http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_36-1989/Notornis_36_4.pdf Stratification of passerines in Fijian forests] ". "Notornis" 36 (4): 267-285]

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