Tagula White-eye Zosterops meeki Scientific name definitions

10·5 cm. Has forehead to middle of crown, lores, region below eyering and ear-coverts blackish, shading into olive-green on rear crown and upperparts, which shade into olive-yellow on rump; broad white eyering interrupted at front by black spot; ill-defined yellow malar stripe; chin to abdomen white, faintly tinged buffy, vent and undertail-coverts yellow; iris dark brown; bill black, slaty blue at base; legs slate-blue or slate-brown. Sexes alike. Juvenile undescribed.

Tagula I (in Louisade Is), off SE New Guinea.

Lowland forest and forest edge at 300m; probably most numerous in hills.

Not known.

No information.

Not recorded.

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Not globally threatened. Currently considered Data Deficient. Restricted-range species: present in Louisiade Archipelago EBA. Virtually unknown. Found only on Tagula I (c. 866 km²), but no modern records, except for an unpublished report of up to four observed in 2013–2014 (1 Goulding, W. (2014). Conservation of Endemic Birds in the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Interim Report for the Rufford Foundation – October 2014. Close ). None seen during a ten-day trek from N coast S to Mt Riu in 1992. Over half of forest on Tagula is degraded and threat of logging hangs over remaining lowland forest BirdLife International (2015) Species factsheet: Zosterops meeki. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 14/11/2015. . Large-scale logging could have a devastating effect on this and other species on Tagula. Nothing known of the extent of this species' range on the island, no population data and nothing known of popoulation trend. Lack of information precludes a robust assessment of its risk of extinction; it is therefore listed as Data Deficient.