Long-billed White-eye

Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist forests, and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The Long-billed White-eye is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.

The Long-billed White-eye (Rukia longirostra) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist forests, and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss. It has a curious nuthatch-like behavior of creeping along large tree limbs, and especially seems specialize in using its long slightly-decurved bill to extract insects from the severed ends of branches. More