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Lemon-bellied White-eye

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Zosterops chloris

Lemon-bellied White-eye belongs to bird in the family Zosteropidae. Its natural range is restricted to Indonesia, where it occurs on a number of islands from the Sunda Strait to the Aru Islands. It is present on several of the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as on parts of Sulawesi, as well as many smaller islands. is absent from the larger islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra and Timor. (Wikipedia, general species account).

However, the extensive distribution of Z. c. intermedius (including S. Their diet comprises invertebrates, fruits, and nectar. Individuals have strong dark grey legs, a dark colored beak, and generally range in size from 11 to 12 cm. Currently (May 2017), HBW describes five sub-species of lemon-bellied white-eye. Lesser Sundas and small islands in between) is likely to contain more than one reproductively isolated population (cf. Z.c. intermedius and Z. c. flavissimus, with the latter now considered a distinct species, the Wakatobi white-eye (Z. flavissimus). (Wikipedia, general species account).

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