Nests are made of many different materials the birds find lying around such as grass, plant material, string, tin foil, leaves, mosses, and cobwebs or spider cocoons. They build a very neat nest, resembling a woven basket. The nest, is attached to the fork of a branch usually using spider webs. On the University of Hawaii s campus in Manoa, these nests are often lined with human hair. The Mejiro lays two to five pale blue eggs, which take about 11 days to incubate.
Parental responsibility is shared by both the male and the female birds.
It is also common on the island of Japan and on island between Japan and Korea. The Japanese White-eye is not an endangered bird because of its adaptability and the length of its breeding season. It is known that the White-eye competes with the Honeycreepers for food, whether or not the competition is serious to the point that it endangers the Honeycreepers has not been determined. Birds of Hawaii. Birds life in Hawaii.