The green-fronted white-eye (''Zosterops minor'') 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
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. 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
family
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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. Some sources include this species within ''Z. atrifrons'', the
black-crowned white-eye. The
black-fronted white-eye (''Z. chrysolaemus'') was formerly considered a subspecies, and until it was split as a distinct species, the name "black-fronted white-eye" was also used for ''Z. minor''.
It is found in
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
and offshore islands. Quite common, it is not considered a
threatened species
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by the
IUCN.
References
Green-fronted white-eye
Birds of the New Guinea Highlands
Green-fronted white-eye
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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