The pygmy white-eye (''Heleia squamifrons''), also known as the pygmy ibon, is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the white-eye 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 ...

Distribution and habitat

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 elsew ...

to the hill forest and lower montane forest of northern

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

Behaviour

It feeds on small berries, fruits, seeds and insects, foraging in small flocks of 4 to 8 birds. It will associate with other birds when feeding, including other white-eyes, cuckoo-doves,

yuhina ''Yuhina'' is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. The genus ''Yuhina'' was introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the stripe-throated yuhina as the type species. The genus name is from Nepali ...

s and erpornises. The species is common but inconspicuous.

References

pygmy white-eye The pygmy white-eye (''Heleia squamifrons''), also known as the pygmy ibon, is a species of bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. Distribution and habitat It is endemic to the hill forest and lower montane forest of northern Borneo. Behavi ...

Birds of East Malaysia Endemic birds of Borneo

Taxa named by Richard Bowdler Sharpe Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Zosteropidae-stub