Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Swinhoe's White-eye
Zosterops simplex
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
A pocket-sized green spark with painted-on eye-rings, drifting through subtropical gardens in busy little flocks. Once lumped with the Japanese White-eye, now a species of its own.
- Populasi
- The species is abundant across its range.
- Habitat
- Generalist and highly adaptable: forests, forest edge, shrublands, parks, gardens, farmland, and urban/artificial vegetated areas; forages from the understory up into the canopy.
- Fakta menarik
- Swinhoe's White-eye was only recognized as a distinct species in 2018, when molecular phylogenetic work split the wide-ranging Japanese/warbling white-eye complex into several species, including Z. simplex.
- Sebaran
- Eastern and southern China (south Gansu/Jiangsu south to Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian) and Hainan, Taiwan, northern Vietnam, coastal Thailand and Cambodia, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo; northern populations winter south into Thailand and Indochina. An introduced, rapidly expanding population is established in Southern California, USA.
- Makanan
- Omnivorous forager taking small fruit, insects and other invertebrates, and nectar; gleans actively through multiple vegetation strata from understory to canopy.
- Ukuran
- 0,105 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,16 m
