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Photo by Bobby6425
Tabor Hills, Talamban, Cebu City, Philippines, August, 2008

Zosterops everetti

[edit] Identification

• Yellow below
• Olive green above
• Olive green crown, forehead and earcoverts
• Yellow throat
• White eyering
• Black loral line
• Yellow undertail-coverts, hind flanks and thighs
• Median stripe on belly and lower breast
• White-grey upper breast
• White grey flanks
• Red brown iris
• Blue grey legs

[edit] Distribution

Southern Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Sulu and Sulawesi (Indonesia).

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 8 subspecies:

• Z. e. tahanensis:

• Peninsula Thailand to Malaysia and northern Borneo

• Z. e. wetmorei:

• Southern Thailand

• Z. e.everetti:

• Philippines (Cebu)

• Z. e. basilanicus:

• Philippines (Basilan, Dinagat, Mindanao, Siargao, Camiguin Sur)

• Z. e. boholensis:

• Philippines (Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Calicoan and Biliran)

• Z. e.siquijorensis:

• Philippines (Siquijor)

• Z. e. mandibularis:

• Sulu Archipelago (Sulu, Tawitawi, Jolo, Bongao, Sanga Sanga)

• Z. e. babelo:

• Talaud Island (Karakelong and Salebabu) and northern Sulawesi

[edit] Habitat

Damp lowland forests and cloud forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Wikipedia
3. Thai Birding

• List of references

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