Everett's white-eye

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Everett's white-eye
Zosterops everetti.jpg

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Zosterops
Species:
Z. everetti
Binomial name
Zosterops everetti
Tweeddale, 1878

Everett's white-eye (Zosterops everetti) is a bird species in the disputed family Zosteropidae, which might belong with the Old World babblers (Timaliidae). The name commemorates British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.

Distribution and habitat[]

It is restricted to the Talaud Islands, Sulu Archipelago and the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Zosterops everetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.


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