Swinhoe's white-eye
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Zosterops simplex

Swinhoe's white-eye (Zosterops simplex ) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in east China, north Vietnam, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

This species was formerly treated as a subspecies group of the warbling white-eye (Zosterops japonicus ) but based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018, it was promoted to species rank.

References

1. Swinhoe's white-eye Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinhoe's_white-eye
2. Swinhoe's white-eye on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155158152/155179279
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/696325

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