Bird watching on Fiji - Fiji White-eye

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The Fiji White-eye (Zosterops explorator) is a species of passerine bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. The species is also known as the Layard's white-eye. It is endemic to the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Kadavu, and Ovalau in Fiji, where it is a common bird of forests. Where it co-occurs with the closely related silvereye it is more common in denser forest.

It is a typical small white-eye of the genus Zosterops, similar in appearance to the silvereye, although the plumage is much yellower, it is chunkier and has a complete eye-ring. The back is olive green and the throat and belly yellow. The call is described as "a high pitched seeu-seeu".

The Fiji white-eye feeds by gleaning insects from shrubs and trees. It will join mixed-species feeding flocks with other Fijian birds, including silvereyes. It also feeds lower down in the trees than silvereyes.

Endemic on Fiji

Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net

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Listen to the Fiji White-eye

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Bird calling from mid strata of a patch of secondary forest. Recording Equipment: Telinga Pro 7 Stereo Dat Mic, Sound Devices 702

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Bird singing from top strata of a patch of secondary forest. Recording Equipment: Telinga Pro 7 Stereo Dat Mic, Sound Devices 702

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013

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Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 29th of September 2017
Location: Nadi

Fiji White-eye - Zosterops explorator

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