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 DD    White-throated White-eye* Id (Atlas):
    Zosterops meeki

Description (4)
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Other Names (World)
Tagula White-eye, White-throated White-eye, Tagula Black-fronted White-eye, Louisiade Black-fronted White-eye

Family
Zosteropidae (White-eyes And Yuhinas)

Size
10.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartert, 1898

Habitat
Lowland forest and forest edge. From sea-level - 300 m.

Range (Guide)
Papua New Guinea (B).

Tagula I (in Louisade Is), off south-eastern New Guinea.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status DD
Habitat destruction through logging is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Tagula White-eye (Zosterops meeki) [XC375924]
     by Todd Mark from Tagula Island., Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea (call)

 
Tagula White-eye (Zosterops meeki) [XC375933]
     by id from Tagula Island., Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea (alarm call, call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Cream-throated White-eye (Zosterops atriceps), Black-crowned White-eye (Zosterops atrifrons), Togian White-eye (Zosterops somadikartai), Sangihe White-eye (Zosterops nehrkorni), Seram White-eye (Zosterops stalkeri), Black-fronted White-eye (Zosterops minor) and Black-headed White-eye (Zosterops hypoxanthus). Sometimes treated as conspecific with Black-fronted White-eye (Zosterops minor), of which it may be merely a subspecies which has lost its yellow throat.


References
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Files:
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