Endangered
Javan White-eye
Zosterops flavus
The Javan white-eye is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae that occurs in Java and Borneo.
Appearance
The Javan white-eye is 10 cm (3.9 in) large on average. It has yellow plumage underneath. The Javan white-eye is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae that occurs in Java and Borneo.
Range and habitat
Its natural habitat includes tropical moist lowland and mangrove forests and shrubland.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
It is threatened by trapping for wildlife trade and has been assessed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2019, as the wild population declined significantly.
Javan White-eye is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Javan white-eye, Wikidata item Q74078. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
