Slender-billed white-eye
| Slender-billed white-eye | |
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| Painting by John Gould (1848) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Zosterops |
| Species: | Z. tenuirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| Zosterops tenuirostris Gould, 1837
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Geographic range of the slender-billed white-eye
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The slender-billed white-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Norfolk Island.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Its predators include the Norfolk Island morepork.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2022). "Zosterops tenuirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22714226A211535599. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ Norman, Janette; Olsen, Penny; Christidis, Les (October 1998). "Molecular genetics confirms taxonomic affinities of the endangered Norfolk Island Bookbook Owl Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata". Biological Conservation. 86 (1): 33–36. Bibcode:1998BCons..86...33N. doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(98)00012-3. ISSN 0006-3207.
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