Green-backed White-eye (Zosterops xanthochroa)

Other Names (World)
Green-backed White-eye, New Caledonian White-eye

Family
Zosteropidae (White-eyes And Yuhinas)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gray, 1859

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

New Caledonia (B).

Mare Island in the Loyalty Islands group, New Caledonia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A thin 'see-see-see'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

Green-backed White-eye (Zosterops xanthochroa) [XC340204]
by id from Parc de les Les Grandes Fougeres, Farino, New Caledonia, France (flight call, song)

Green-backed White-eye (Zosterops xanthochroa) [XC40109]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Les Grandes Fongeres, Farino, New Caledonia, France (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Affinities unclear. May form a superspecies with Fiji White-eye (Zosterops explorator), Vanuatu White-eye (Zosterops flavifrons) and Small Lifou White-eye (Zosterops minutus).

References
See References.

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