Vanuatu White-eye (Zosterops flavifrons)

Other Names (World)
Vanuatu White-eye, Yellow-fronted White-eye, Yellow White-eye

Family
Zosteropidae (White-eyes And Yuhinas)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, heavily degraded former forest, rural gardens, plantations.

Range (Guide)

Vanuatu (B).

Banks Island and Vanuatu (B).

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 (11)...)

Vanuatu White-eye (Zosterops flavifrons) [XC45611]
by Phil Gregory from Vatthe, Santo, Vanuatu, Vanuatu (call)

Vanuatu White-eye (Zosterops flavifrons) [XC613000]
by id from Ilvualam plantation, Vanuatu (song)

Subspecies
Affinities obscure. May form a superspecies with Fiji White-eye (Zosterops explorator), Small Lifou White-eye (Zosterops minutus)and Green-backed White-eye (Zosterops xanthochroa). Subspecies perplexus sometimes synonymized with macgillivrayi, and efatensis with gauensis. Further study is needed.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

perplexus Murphy & Mathews, 1929 - Extreme northern and north-eastern Vanuatu from Banks Is (Vanua Lava, Mere Lava) south to Ma�wo, Aoba, Pentecost, Ambrym, Paama, Lop�vi, �pi, Tongoa and �ma�.
gauensis Murphy & Mathews, 1929 - Santa María I (Gaua), in northern Vanuatu.
brevicauda Murphy & Mathews, 1929 - Espíritu Santo and Malo, in north-western Vanuatu.
macgillivrayi Sharpe, 1900 - Malakula, in north-central Vanuatu.
efatensis Mayr, 1937 - Nguna, �fat� and Erromango, in south-central Vanuatu.
flavifrons (Gmelin, 1789) - Tanna, Aniwa and Futuna (Erronan), in southern Vanuatu.
majusculus Murphy & Mathews, 1929 - Anatom (Aneityum), in extreme southern Vanuatu.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Vanuatu White-eye (Zosterops flavifrons) - 10 files

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