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Black-capped White-eye

White-eyes

Zosterops atricapilla

Basic stats

Diet

Insects, nectar, small fruit

Habitat

Montane and hill forest

Range

Borneo and Sumatra highlands

Clutch size

2–3 eggs

Incubation period

About 12 days

Size

Small (11–12cm)

Wingspan

~15–17cm

Weight

~9–11g

A yellow-green white-eye with a distinctive black cap, common in hill and montane forest across Borneo's interior mountains.

Highly social, it moves through the canopy in noisy foraging flocks, taking insects, nectar and small fruit while giving constant soft contact calls.

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