Yellow White-eye

Morphology

The Yellow White-eye is a small bird, 10-11 cm long. The upper parts of the body are mostly dull green, tinged with yellow. The under parts are yellow, and the eye has the white ring, distinctive of the Family Zosteropidae.

Evolution

The Yellow White-eye is a member of the Family Zosteropidae, the white-eyes, or silver-eyes. They are distributed through Africa, south and east Asia, Australia, and many islands in the Indian and west Pacific Oceans.
In Western Australia, areas where mangroves do not grow break up the distribution of the Yellow White-eye. These areas have been tested as long-term barriers to dispersal, and the possibility for populations to be distinct on either side of these barriers.

Behaviour

The Yellow White-eye forages through the yellow and olive foliage of mangroves, and on exposed mud at low tide.

Method of reproduction

Sexual

Habitat

Terrestrial

The Yellow White-eye is found in or near mangroves.

Distribution

The Yellow White-eye is distributed in a single population around Ayr on the east coast of Australia, and then from the western Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to Shark Bay in Western Australia.
Not endemic to Western Australia.