Bougainville White-eye - BirdForum Opus

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Zosterops halmini

Identification

12.5cm (5 in).

• Dark olive or brownish-olive above
• Sooty brown face and forehead
• Eye-ring narrow and white
• Blackish-brown primaries and tail with dark olive outer margins
• Upper throat greenish-olive
• Dirty white breast, greyish at sides
• Almost pure white abdomen
• Undertail-coverts yellow
• Pale to dark orange-brown eye
• Blackish bill with whitish base of lower mandible
• Pale leaden grey legs

Sexes similar, juveniles undescribed

Distribution

Found in the Solomon Islands: Bougainville Island

A restricted-range species but common to abundant in its range.

Taxonomy

Makira White-eye, Guadalcanal White-eye and Bougainville White-eye were formerly considered a single species with the name of Grey-throated White-eye (= Gray-throated White-eye).

Subspecies

This is a monotypic species[1].

References

1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 14.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Bougainville White-eye. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bougainville_White-eye

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