Zosterops citrinella
Not Threatened
Taxonomy: Z[osterops] citrinella Bonaparte, 1850, Timor. Forms a superspecies with Z. chloris, and sometimes Z. grayi and Z. uropygialis included in same superspecies; possibly closely related to Z. consobrinorum. Has sometimes been treated as conspecific with Z. flavus, Z. chloris and Z. luteus, and sometimes with Z. palpebrosus. Birds of this species recorded on Lomblen (EC Lesser Sundas) of uncertain racial identity, provisionally included in harterti; those from Lucipara Is (in Banda Sea) provisionally included in albiventris. Proposed race intercalatus (from Sumba) merged with nominate; griseiventris (Tanimbar Is), bassetti (Damar I) and lettiensis (Leti I) subsumed in albiventris. Three subspecies currently recognized. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Subspecies and Distribution:
- * citrinella Bonaparte, 1850 - Sumba, Savu, Timor and Roti (including islets of Ndana and Ndao). * harterti Stresemann, 1912 - Lomblen and Alor, in EC Lesser Sundas. * albiventris Reichenbach, 1852 - Lucipara Is and Gunungapi (in Banda Sea), Wetar, Romang, Damar, Teun, Kisar, Leti, Moa, Luang, Sermata, Babar, Tanimbar Is (Molu, Lutu, Yamdena, Larat, Selaru); islands in Torres Straits (Warrior, Deliverance, Cairncross), and islets off extreme NE Australia off (Eborac S to Rocky Islets, off NE Cape York Peninsula).
Insectivorous