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A rare new Zosterops

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I HAVE been interested in white-eyes since volunteering at Newquay Zoo some years ago. Newquay kept Kilimanjaro white-eyes, which were then listed as Zosterops poliogastrus but, with ever-changing taxonomy, are now referred to as . Sadly, they didn't breed while I was there, and it was to be quite a few more years until I was in close contact with a white-eye species again. This

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