The black-crowned white-eye (''Zosterops atrifrons'') is a

songbird A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin ''oscen'', "songbird". The Passeriformes contains 5000 ...

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

. It is closely related to the

Old World babbler The Old World babblers or Timaliidae are a family of mostly Old World passerine birds. They are rather diverse in size and coloration, but are characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in S ...

s, and its

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Zosteropidae The white-eyes are a family, Zosteropidae, of small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the ...

might better be included in the Tiimalidae. Its subspecies from the Sulawesi region might warrant recognition as distinct species ''Z. subatrifrons''. The Sangihe white-eye (''Z. nehrkorni'') and the Seram white-eye (''Z. stalkeri'') were formerly included in ''Z. atrifrons'', as is still, on occasion, the black-fronted white-eye (''Z. minor''). It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

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. Its natural

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland

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s and subtropical or tropical moist

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s. Quite common, it is not considered a

threatened species Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of '' critical depen ...

by the IUCN.

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References

Birds described in 1910 Endemic birds of Sulawesi Zosterops Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Zosteropidae-stub