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Makira White-eye

Zosterops rendovaeTristram, HB, 1882

English (US) Makira White-eye

The Makira White-eye (Zosterops rendovae) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Zosteropidae (White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.

Range: Makira (southeastern Solomon Islands)Range summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Zosterops rendovae
IUCN Red List
Not Evaluated
English (US)
Makira White-eye
Described by
Tristram, HB, 1882

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Taxonomic history

Described by
Tristram, HB, 1882
Type locality
Rendova Island. Composite, based on description of a Rendova Island specimen, misidentified as Tephras olivacea Ramsay, 1881, nee Certhia olivacea Linnaeus, 1766; restricted to Rendova by Tristram, 1889, Catalog Coll. Birds belonging Tristram, p. 212, and 1894, Ibis, p. 30 (see Galbraith, 1957, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 77, pp. 10-16) .
Original description
Ibis ser.4, vol.6, no.21 p.135

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 147 species of the family Zosteropidae