Slender-billed white-eye

Slender-billed white-eye
Painting by John Gould (1848)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Zosterops
Species: Z. tenuirostris
Binomial name
Zosterops tenuirostris
Gould, 1837

The slender-billed white-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to Norfolk Island.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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