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            The Indian White-Eye, Male
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@ Coonoor, Nilgiris Dist
Tamil Nadu, India
08 Sep 2022

Description Credit – Birds of the World (The Cornnel Lab), Oiseaux-birds & Wiki

The Indian White-Eye is a brightly- yellow coloured hyperactive gregarious little bird with an off-white belly and distinctive white eye-ring “spectacles.” formerly called the Oriental White-Eye. It is a resident breeder in open woodland on the Indian subcontinent. They forage in small groups of anywhere from 8 to 30 birds, feeding on nectar and small insects.

The Indian White-Eye measures around 10 cms and has a upperparts largely uniformly bright olive yellow; crown, nape, back, greater, median, and lesser wing coverts all uniformly bright olive yellow; uppertail coverts and rump slightly brighter yellow. Throat and upper-breast yellow to olive yellow. Underparts largely pale greyish white; lower breast and belly greyish white to vent and undertail coverts, which are lemon yellow. Black lores bisect the white eye-ring; narrow black border to the lower portion of the eye-ring. Primaries and secondaries dark blackish grey with olive-yellow leading edges; upperside of rectrices variable, from olive yellow to dark grey with olive-yellow outer-edges; underside of rectrices dark grey. The Iris is brown to yellowish brown, the Tarsi and Feet dark slate or lavender grey and the bill Dusky plumbeous or horn, with paler lower mandible. Mouth-lining pinkish. The Sexes are alike. 

They are found widespread from North Eastern Afghanistan, through the Indian Subcontinent, east to South Eastern China, and South to Indochina and Western Thailand. They occur commonly in a variety of forested habitats from broadleaved evergreen/semi-evergreen forest, secondary growth, and mangroves from sea-level to 2,800mtrs in temperate dry coniferous forest. Found in many hilly regions also recorded commonly down to foothills in deciduous and evergreen forests

The Indian White-Eye is Omnivorous. It feeds mostly on vegetable matter includes small buds, seeds, fruits and nectar and animal food mostly insects. It forages mainly in middle story and sub-canopy of the tree. The Indian White-Eye is the main pollinator for many flowers and plant species.

Their Song starts with some melodious rising and falling whistles followed by same querulous notes, uttered in continuous accelerating and decelerating strophes, qwee-qworr-quwarrr tu-cheeer-tu-cheeer-cheer, tu-cheer-cheeer-tu-cheeeer-cheer. They call persistently while in flocks; include a repeated, monotonous querulous sibilant jeww or cheuw, or (tu cheeer) cheeer cheeer cheeerr or prree-u.

Taken in: India / Tamil Nadu / Wellington (show map)

Taken on: September 8, 2022

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