Black-capped Speirops (Zosterops lugubris)

Other Names (World)
Black-capped Speirops, Sao Tome Speirops

Family
Zosteropidae (White-eyes And Yuhinas)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1848)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

S�o Tom� e Principe (B).

Mountains of S�o Tom� I, in Gulf of Guinea.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

Black-capped Speirops (Zosterops lugubris) [XC732222]
by Todd Mark from M. Vilela, Lemb\u00e1, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, Sao Tome (call, feeding)

Black-capped Speirops (Zosterops lugubris) [XC404797]
by Eduardo Realinho from Bom Successo, Sao Tome, Sao Tome (song, local guide making useless attempts at oriole vocalisations)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Black-capped Speirops (Zosterops lugubris) and Mount Cameroon Speirops (Zosterops melanocephalus) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include melanocephalus as a subpecies of Black-capped Speirops (Zosterops lugubris).

Forms a superspecies with Mount Cameroon Speirops (Zosterops melanocephalus), and formerly considered conspecific, but morphologically and ecologically different. Principe Speirops (Zosterops leucophaeus) possibly belongs to same superspecies.

References
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