Black-capped White-eye (Zosterops atricapilla)
About the Black-capped White-eye
The black-capped white-eye (Zosterops atricapilla) is a small passerine from the family Zosteropidae. It can reach a length between nine and eleven centimetres and looks slightly similar to the Sangkar white-eye. The back is olive green and the iris is brown. The bill and the feet are coloured black. The voice is characterized by soft twitters. It inhabits mountain forests and alpine meadows in altitudes between 700 and 3000 m on mountains of Sumatra, and Borneo (especially Mount Kinabalu, Gunung Mulu, and Mount Batu Patap).
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 23 recordings for this species: 6 CC BY-NC-SA · 2 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Broad-ringed White-eyeZosterops eurycricotusrecording
- Pale White-eyeZosterops flavilateralisrecording
- Rota White-eyeZosterops rotensisrecording
- SilvereyeZosterops lateralisrecording
- Southern Yellow White-eyeZosterops anderssonirecording
- Warbling White-eyeZosterops japonicusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.