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Louisiade White-eye (Zosterops griseotinctus)

Louisiade White-eye
Photo: Rémi Bigonneau via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Louisiade White-eye

The Louisiade white-eye or islet white-eye (Zosterops griseotinctus) is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, where it is found on widely disjunct islets on both the Bismarck and Louisiade archipelagos. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. There are five subspecies recognized by the International Ornithological Congress: Z. g. ottomeyeri Stresemann, 1930 - Nauna Z. g. eichhorni Hartert, 1926 - several disjunct islets in the Bismarck Archipelago Z. g. griseotinctus Gray, GR, 1858 - west-central Louisiade Archipelago Z. g. longirostris Ramsay, 1879 - islets east of New Guinea Z. g. pallidipes De Vis, 1890 - Rossel Island.

Source: Louisiade white-eye on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 9 recordings for this species: 7 CC BY-NC-ND · 2 CC BY-NC-SA. 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 Papua New Guinea in the xeno-canto catalogue.

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