Endangered
Príncipe White-eye
Zosterops ficedulinus
Príncipe White-eye is a perching bird in the family Zosteropidae (order Passeriformes) — Zosterops ficedulinus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Príncipe white-eye is a bird in the family Zosteropidae.
The species was described by Gustav Hartlaub in 1866.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the islands of Príncipe and São Tomé, where it is restricted to the hilly interiors of the southern parts. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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
Príncipe 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 Príncipe White-eye, Wikidata item Q1314559. 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.
