Wangi-wangi white-eye

The Wangi-wangi white-eye (Zosterops paruhbesar), locally known as sui,^[2] is a species of songbird in the white-eye family.^[3] It is endemic to a single island, Wangi-wangi Island, in the Wakatobi Islands, Indonesia.^[4]

Wangi-wangi white-eye
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Zosteropidae
Genus:	Zosterops
Species:	Z. paruhbesar
Binomial name
Zosterops paruhbesar Irham et al., 2022

Zosterops paruhbesar has a yellowish head, throat, vent and mid ventral stripe. The flanks are greyish and the flight feathers and tail feathers are brown. Like many other white-eyes, it has a ring of white feathers around the eye.^[5][6] The Wangi-wangi white-eye's bright yellow bill sets it apart from the Wakatobi white-eye, the only other white-eye on Wangi-wangi, as well as other white-eye species in the broader region.