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Christmas white-eye

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has rated its conservation status as least concern. The subpopulation on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands is estimated to be about 5% of the size of the Christmas Island population, but it provides a second location which should reduce the risk that a natural disaster will cause
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is an island specialist, with 82 of the 98 species being restricted to islands, and many species being known from only a single island. It is a highly successful group, having an unspecialised diet and a great dispersal capacity. The Christmas white-eye is
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where it has become established, but mostly around human settlements. On Christmas Island it occurs in forests all over the island at altitudes up to about 360 m (1,200 ft), as well as in gardens, the vicinity of abandoned mines and
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The Christmas white-eye has a length of between 11.7 and 13.5 cm (4.6 and 5.3 in). The upper parts are greyish-olive and the underparts whitish. There is a yellowish streak above the eye and a distinctive white feather
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The Christmas white-eye has a varied diet including fruits, seeds, nectar and insects.
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to Christmas Island, but it has also been successfully introduced to the
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of Christmas Island. It has severely reduced and nearly eliminated the
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Christmas Island white-eye

Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Zosteropidae
Zosterops
Binomial name
Lister
bird
Zosteropidae
endemic
Christmas Island
habitats
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
subtropical or tropical moist shrubland
habitat destruction
ring
Zosterops
endemic
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
weedy
yellow crazy ant

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