The broad-ringed white-eye (Zosterops eurycricotus) or Kilimanjaro white-eye is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in northeast Tanzania.
Broad-ringed white-eye | |
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In captivity at Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Zosteropidae |
Genus: | Zosterops |
Species: | Z. eurycricotus
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Binomial name | |
Zosterops eurycricotus Fischer, G.A. & Reichenow, 1884
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The broad-ringed white-eye was formerly considered a subspecies of the montane white-eye, now Heuglin's white-eye (Zosterops poliogastrus).[2][3]
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International 2017. Zosterops eurycricotus (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103891241A113128880. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103891241A113128880.en. Downloaded on 20 August 2019.
- ^ Pearson, D.J.; Turner, D.A. (2017). "A taxonomic review of the genus Zosterops in East Africa, with a revised list of species occurring in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania". Scopus. 37: 1–13.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.