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Grey-brown white-eye

bird especies

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ27062190 ↗
Source-derived summary

The grey-brown white-eye or Pohnpei white-eye (Zosterops ponapensis) is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Pohnpei.

This species and the Kosrae white-eye were formerly considered conspecific.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Grey-brown white-eye” as bird especies. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 42-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Grey-brown, white-eye and bird can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as bird especies. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27062190. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grey-brown white-eye” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.