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Zosterops everetti
Diet
Fruit, berries, nectar and small insects
Habitat
Moist lowland and montane forest
Range
Talaud Islands, Sulu Archipelago and the Philippines
Everett’s white-eye is a small forest passerine named for British administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett. Its distribution covers the Talaud Islands, the Sulu Archipelago and the Philippines rather than Sulawesi’s main island. The source places it in both tropical moist lowland and montane forest. As a white-eye it is a compact, active bird, but the account opened did not provide a sufficiently precise plumage description or measurements, so those features are not reconstructed from photographs (Wikipedia general species account).
The available account describes a generalist diet of fruit, berries, nectar and small insects. Birds forage through the understorey and frequently join mixed-species feeding flocks, behaviour that can make them conspicuous while a flock passes and difficult to relocate afterward. Breeding is thought to fall between April and August. The nest follows the small suspended-cup form associated with white-eyes and is placed a few metres above ground in a small tree; the source does not give clutch size or incubation length (Wikipedia general species account).