Yellow-spectacled White-eye (Heleia wallacei)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-spectacled White-eye, Wallace's White-eye, Yellow-ringed White-eye

Family
Zosteropidae (White-eyes And Yuhinas)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Finsch, 1901)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and moist shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Indonesia.

Lesser Sunda Is: Sumbawa, Moyo, Komodo, Rinca, Sumba, Flores, Besar, Adonara, Lomblen.

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
Distinctive song. Ten to fourteen thin, ascending and descending, warbling notes.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

Yellow-ringed White-eye (Heleia wallacei) [XC773131]
by id from Km 70, Lewa-Waikabubak Hwy, Sumba, Indonesia (song)

Yellow-ringed White-eye (Heleia wallacei) [XC31453]
by Kim Chuah Lim from Puarlolo, Flores, Indonesia (song?)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Relationships uncertain; seems to be distantly related to Black-capped White-eye (Zosterops atricapilla), Everett's White-eye (Zosterops everetti), Yellowish White-eye (Zosterops nigrorum) and others. Very different from other members of genus in region in several features. Although birds from Flores slightly smaller on average than those from Sumba, difference considered too trivial to warrant naming of geographical subspecies.

References
See References.

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