Passeriformes

White-eyes (Zosteropidae)

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• Small, warbler-like passerines with brush-tipped tongue, all except one species having vestigial outermost primary; often with olive-green upperparts and yellow throat, and yellow or white belly, many with conspicuous white eyering.
• Old World.
• Forest, open woodland and gardens to offshore islets and alpine shrubland.
• 14 genera, 99 species, 250 taxa.
• 20 species threatened; 2 species and 2 subspecies extinct since 1600.