Fiji white-eye

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Fiji white-eye

| image = Fiji Whiteeye deVoeux jun08.JPG

| image_caption = In forest at De Voeux Peak on Taveuni

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Zosterops explorator |volume=2016 |page=e.T22714238A94407690 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714238A94407690.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Zosterops

| species = explorator

| authority = Layard, 1875

| synonyms =

| range_map = Fiji in its region.svg

| range_map_caption = Range highlighted in red

}}

The Fiji white-eye (Zosterops explorator) is a species of passerine bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. The species is also known as Layard's white-eye.Pacific Birds (2001) [http://www.pacificbirds.com/fiji1.htmlSummary List of the Birds of Fiji]. Downloaded 22 July 2008

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It is endemic to the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Kadavu, and Ovalau in Fiji, where it is a common bird of forests.Pratt, H., Bruner, P & Berrett, D. (1987) The Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific Princeton University Press:Princeton {{ISBN|0-691-08402-5}} Where it co-occurs with the closely related silvereye it is more common in denser forest.

It is a typical small white-eye of the genus Zosterops, similar in appearance to the silvereye, although the plumage is much yellower, it is chunkier and has a complete eye-ring. The back is olive green and the throat and belly yellow. The call is described as "a high pitched seeu-seeu".

The Fiji white-eye feeds by gleaning insects from shrubs and trees. It will join mixed-species feeding flocks with other Fijian birds, including silvereyes. It also feeds lower down in the trees than silvereyes.Langham (1989) "[http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_36-1989/Notornis_36_4.pdf Stratification of passerines in Fijian forests] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017222920/http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_36-1989/Notornis_36_4.pdf |date=2008-10-17 }}". Notornis 36 (4): 267-285

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{{Wikispecies|Zosterops explorator}}