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The Layard's White-eye feeds by gleaning insects from shrubs and trees. It will join [[mixed-species feeding flock]]s with other Fijian birds, including Silvereyes. It also [[Niche differentiation|feeds lower down]] in the trees than Silvereyes.<ref>Langham (1989) "[http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_36-1989/Notornis_36_4.pdf Stratification of passerines in Fijian forests]". ''Notornis'' '''36''' (4): 267-285</ref> |
The Layard's White-eye feeds by gleaning insects from shrubs and trees. It will join [[mixed-species feeding flock]]s with other Fijian birds, including Silvereyes. It also [[Niche differentiation|feeds lower down]] in the trees than Silvereyes.<ref>Langham (1989) "[http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_36-1989/Notornis_36_4.pdf Stratification of passerines in Fijian forests]". ''Notornis'' '''36''' (4): 267-285</ref> |
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The Layard's White-eye (Zosterops explorator) is a species of passerine bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. The species is also known as the Fiji White-eye.[2] It is endemic to the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Kadavu, and Ovalau in Fiji, where it is a common bird of forests.[3] Where it co-occurs with the closely related Silvereye it is more common in denser forest.
It is a typical small white-eye of the genus Zosterops, similar in appearance to the Silvereye, although the plumage is much yellower, it is chunkier and has a complete eye-ring.[3] The back is olive green and the throat and belly yellow. The call is described as "a high pitched seeu-seeu".
The Layard's White-eye feeds by gleaning insects from shrubs and trees. It will join mixed-species feeding flocks with other Fijian birds, including Silvereyes. It also feeds lower down in the trees than Silvereyes.[4]
References
- ^ BirdLife International 2004. Zosterops explorator. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
- ^ Pacific Birds (2001) List of the Birds of Fiji. Downloaded 22 July 2008
- ^ a b Pratt, H., Bruner, P & Berrett, D. (1987) The Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific Princeton University Press:Princeton ISBN 0-691-08402-5
- ^ Langham (1989) "Stratification of passerines in Fijian forests". Notornis 36 (4): 267-285
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