Endangered
Wangi-wangi White-eye
Zosterops paruhbesar
Wangi-wangi White-eye is a perching bird in the family Zosteropidae (order Passeriformes) — Zosterops paruhbesar, recorded as Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
Appearance
The Wangi-wangi white-eye, locally known as sui, is a songbird in the white-eye family. Wangi-wangi White-eye has a yellowish head, throat, vent and mid ventral stripe. The flanks are greyish and the flight feathers and tail feathers are brown.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to a single island, Wangi-wangi Island, in the Wakatobi Islands, Indonesia.
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
Wangi-wangi 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 Wangi-wangi White-eye, Wikidata item Q115756051. 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.
