Sulawesi White-eye

The pale-bellied white-eye (Zosterops consobrinorum) belongs to bird in the family Zosteropidae. Its natural range is restricted to SE Sulawesi in Indonesia. The Wangi-Wangi white-eye has a number of differences from the pale-bellied white-eye including larger size, a black body, a long yellow beak, a gray breast and pale feet. Like most white-eyes it has a white ring around the eye and green upperparts. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. (Wikipedia, general species account).

The species has a limited distribution and also appears to be sensitive to human disturbance. Although not yet recognized as a subspecies of the pale-bellied white-eye, in 2003 a similar bird was discovered near the village of Wanci on Wangi-wangi Island and provisionally named the Wangi-Wangi white-eye (Zosterops sp. nov.). This island is its only known home and is part of the Tukangbesi Islands to the southeast of Sulawesi in Indonesia. (Wikipedia, general species account).