Critically Endangered
Rota White-eye
Zosterops rotensis
Rota White-eye is a perching bird in the family Zosteropidae (order Passeriformes) — Zosterops rotensis, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The Rota white-eye or Rota bridled white-eye is a bird in the family Zosteropidae.
Published measurements include mass about 10.
Range and habitat
It is critically endangered and endemic to Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands, where it mainly occurs in mature, wet limestone forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
It forages and roosts in flocks.
In crisis
Rota White-eye is Critically 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 Rota White-eye — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3120024. 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.
