The slender-billed white-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Norfolk Island.
Slender-billed white-eye | |
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Painting by John Gould (1848) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Zosteropidae |
Genus: | Zosterops |
Species: | Z. tenuirostris
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Binomial name | |
Zosterops tenuirostris Gould, 1837
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Geographic range of the slender-billed white-eye
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Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Its predators include the Norfolk Island morepork.[2]
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2022). "Zosterops tenuirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22714226A211535599. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ Norman, Janette; Olsen, Penny; Christidis, Les (October 1998). "Molecular genetics confirms taxonomic affinities of the endangered Norfolk Island Bookbook Owl Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata". Biological Conservation. 86 (1): 33–36. Bibcode:1998BCons..86...33N. doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(98)00012-3. ISSN 0006-3207.
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