silver-eye

The other endemic land birds are silver-eye Zosterops tephropleura, Lord Howe Island golden whistler Pachycephala pectoralis contempta, both reasonably abundant.

Lord Howe Island Group, Australia 2008

There are two passerines present, the tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) and the silver-eye (Zosterops lateralis), and 5 introduced passerines.

Kermadec Islands subtropical moist forests 2007

Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

For flora and fauna, the pretty little white-eye (also called silver-eye, blight-bird, etc.) may stand for many more items.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3 1981