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Robust White-eye* |
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Zosterops strenuus |
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Description (10)
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Robust White-eye
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Other Names (World)
Robust White-eye, Big Silvereye, Powerful Silvereye, Robust Silvereye, Big Grinnel
Family
Zosteropidae (White-eyes And Yuhinas)
Size
12 - 13 cm
First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1855
Derivation
Zös-tër'-ops - Gk, zoster, belt; Gk, ops, face: stren'-u-us - L., strenua, powerful
Habitat
Temperate lowland, forests and shrublands and palm glades.
Australia (E) (B).
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Lord Howe Island (Australia).
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Status EX
Common before 1918, but plummeted to extinction following the arrival of black rat on the island in that year, and could not be found in 1928.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Food
Fruit and insects. Possibly seeds. Reportedly, other birds' eggs.
Voice
Powerful song, said to have sung throughout the day.
Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of palm fiber, grass, rootlets, lined with finer similar materials, in fork of a twig.
Eggs (Guide)
2 or 3; blue; pointed-oval; 22.5 x 14.5 mm.
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Sometimes treated as conspecific with Slender-billed White-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris).
References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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