page_title: Green-backed white-eye
section_title: Behaviour and ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Green-backed white-eye / Behaviour and ecology
caption_attribution_description: English: Zosterops xanthochroa&#160;: Green-backed White-eye, upside down, looking for food Français&#160;: Zosterops xanthochroa&#160;: Zostérops à dos vert, tête en bas, cherchant de la nourriture
context_page_description: The green-backed white-eye is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is also known as the New Caledonian white-eye. It is endemic to New Caledonia.
context_section_description: Green-backed white-eyes feed on a variety of fruits and insects. Among the fruits taken are papaya and the berries of the introduced Lantana. They will form feeding flocks after the breeding season, which may increase in size as the months pass. Such flocks will also venture outside the primary rainforests in order to take seasonally variable food sources, and will form mixed species feeding flocks with silvereyes, fan-tailed gerygones, and red-throated parrotfinches. They are themselves preyed upon by barn owls.
  The main breeding season for this species is from August to October, but there is considerable uncertainty about the exact timing and it is possible the season extends to January or that the species double broods. The species builds a nest of rootlets, hair, feathers, and cobwebs in the fork of a branch of a tree or shrub. Between two and four turquoise eggs are laid, measuring 16.5 by 13 mm.
caption: Two green-backed white-eyes foraging
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