Broad-ringed White-eye
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The broad-ringed white-eye (''Zosterops eurycricotus'') or Kilimanjaro white-eye is a bird
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 ...
in the family
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 ...
. It is found in northeast Tanzania. The broad-ringed white-eye was formerly considered a
subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
of the montane white-eye, now Heuglin's white-eye (''Zosterops poliogastrus'').


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broad-ringed white-eye The broad-ringed white-eye (''Zosterops eurycricotus'') or Kilimanjaro white-eye is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in northeast Tanzania. The broad-ringed white-eye was formerly considered a subspecies of the montane whi ...
Endemic birds of Tanzania
broad-ringed white-eye The broad-ringed white-eye (''Zosterops eurycricotus'') or Kilimanjaro white-eye is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in northeast Tanzania. The broad-ringed white-eye was formerly considered a subspecies of the montane whi ...
Taxa named by Gustav Fischer {{Zosteropidae-stub