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Photo by Rob Hutchinson
Little Kai, South Moluccas, Indonesia, September 2007

Alternative names: Little Kai White-eye; Little Kei White-eye

Zosterops uropygialis

[edit] Identification

12.5cm.

• Partly bare skin around eye, no white eyering
• Fuscous cap on forehead and loral region
• Bright yellowish-citrine upperparts
• Blackish-brown primaries and tail feathers with broad yellow-citrine edges
• Bright yellow throat and underparts
• Tinged yellow flanks

Sexes similar. Juveniles undescribed.

[edit] Similar species

Similar to Pearl-bellied White-eye but whole forehead dusky (not yellow), eyering barely indicated and underside bright yellow.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to Kai Kecil island, Indonesia.
A scarce to rare restricted-range species.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It's sometimes considered conspecific with Pearl-bellied White-eye and forms a superspecies with it.

[edit] Habitat

Forest. Also cleared land with some scattered trees.

[edit] Behaviour

No information on diet.
Usually recorded in pairs or small groups. Forages in the canopy.
No information about breeding.
A sedentary species.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2008. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 13: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553453

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