Alternative name: Nendo White-eye
- Zosterops sanctaecrucis
Identification
12.5 cm.
- Dull olive upperparts with broad dusky area on lores and narrowly around eye
- Blackish-brown flight-feathers and tail, broadly edged with rather bright olive
- Greenish-yellow underparts, getting yellowish towards centre of belly and vent
- Black bill
- Blue-grey legs
Sexes similar, juveniles undescribed.
Similar species
Larger than Samoan White-eye, dark iris, longer tarsus and without white eyering.
Distribution
Endemic to Ndeni (Nendo) Islands in the Santa Cruz Islands (Solomon Islands).
A fairly common to common restricted-range species.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Scientific name sometimes spelled santaecrucis.
Habitat
Found in gardens, scrub, primary forest, at forest edge and in secondary growth.
Behaviour
No information about diet, breeding or movements.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2015)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Santa Cruz White-eye. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Santa_Cruz_White-eye