South Pare white-eye explained

The south Pare white-eye (Zosterops winifredae) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. Its range is restricted to the southern region of the Pare Mountains in northeastern Tanzania.

The south Pare white-eye was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Heuglin's white-eye (Zosterops poliogastrus) (previously named montane white-eye) but it is now considered as a separate species based on the phylogenetic relationships determined in a molecular study published in 2014.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Cox . S.C. . 2013 . Molecular Systematics and Diversification of African Zosteropidae (Aves: Passeriformes) . PhD . University College London .
2. Cox . S.C. . Prys-Jones . R.P. . Habel . J.C. . Amakobe . B.A. . Day . J.J. . 2014 . Niche divergence promotes rapid diversification of East African sky island white-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae) . Molecular Ecology . 23 . 16 . 4103–4118 . 10.1111/mec.12840 . 24954273 . 4255762 . free . 2014MolEc..23.4103C .
3. Pearson . D.J. . Turner . D.A. . 2017 . A taxonomic review of the genus Zosterops in East Africa, with a revised list of species occurring in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania . Scopus . 37 . 1–13 .
4. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes . World Bird List Version 9.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 24 January 2019 .