Critically Endangered
Sangihe White-eye
Zosterops nehrkorni
Sangihe White-eye is a perching bird in the family Zosteropidae (order Passeriformes) — Zosterops nehrkorni, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
Appearance
The Sangihe white-eye is a bird in the white-eye family. It was formerly considered conspecific with black-crowned white-eye (Zosterops atrifrons), but work by Pamela C. The same research also confirmed the specific status of the Seram white-eye, Zosterops stalkeri.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Sangihe, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is 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
Sangihe 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 Sangihe White-eye, Wikidata item Q795543. 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.
