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Zosterops nigrorum (Yellowish White-eye)

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellowish white-eye or golden-yellow white-eye (Zosterops nigrorum) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Zosterops nigrorum

Infraspecies

Zosterops nigrorum aureiloris
Zosterops nigrorum catarmanensis
Zosterops nigrorum innominatus
Zosterops nigrorum luzonicus
Zosterops nigrorum meyleri
Zosterops nigrorum mindorensis
Zosterops nigrorum nigrorum
Zosterops nigrorum richmondi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
5
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.04394
EDGE Score: 1.11315
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.3 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  70 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Greater Negros-Panay rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Luzon rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mindoro rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Palawan rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Philippines Philippines Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Goodman, SM and PC Gonzales. 1990. The birds of Mount Isarog National Park, southern Luzon, Philippines, with particular reference to altitudinal distribution. Fieldiana: Zoology (NS) 60:1–39
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Interactions among Frugivores and Fleshy Fruit Trees in a Philippine Submontane Rainforest, Andreas Hamann and Eberhard Curio, Conservation Biology Volume 13, No. 4, August 1999, Pages 766–773
♦ 4OBSERVATIONS OF FRUGIVOROUS BIRDS AT FRUIT-BEARING PLANTS IN THE NORTH NEGROS FOREST RESERVE, PHILIPPINES, Martin Heindl & Eberhard Curio, ECOTROPICA 5: 167-181, 1999
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0