Ashy-bellied White-eye
Zosterops citrinella
Green Island, off Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_7930 20220210 - albiventris CLICK for another view.
Notes: Ssp albiventris is like nominate citrinella:
forehead & supraloral region distinctly yellow,
blackish loral line extending under
white eyering, eyering of average width & broken at front by
blackish spot of loral
line; crown & mantle pale olive-yellow, upper breast & undertail-coverts
pale yellow, rest of underparts pale greyish. Cf
Silvereye ssp vegetus w. grey mantle, green
supralore & forehead, &
wide eye-ring. Forages in shrubs & trees gleaning insects & fruit.
Range from Morcombe & Stewart© Apparently an island specialist, not mainland.
Little Woody Island, Seisia, NPA, CYPAL, FN Qld IMG_9645 20220816 - albiventris CLICK for clearer view of olive-yellow mantle.
Little Woody Island, Seisia, NPA, CYPAL, FN Qld IMG_9657 20220816 - albiventris CLICK for view of pale yellow undertail coverts.
Green Island, off Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_2196 20231109 - albiventris CLICK for one otwo days later.
Green Island, off Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_3414 20231111 - albiventris CLICK for another.
Green Island, off Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_8088 20220210 - albiventris - CLICK for another.
Green Island, off Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_7999 20220210 - albiventris