The announcement of the discovery of a new bird comes with a twist: It's a white-eye, but its eye isn't white. Still, what this new bird lacks in literal qualities it makes up for as one of the surprises that nature still has tucked away in little-explored corners of the world.
Ornithologists, including one from Michigan State University, describe for science a new species of bird from the Togian Islands of Indonesia -
Zosterops somadikartai, or Togian white-eye, in the March edition of
The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
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| An artist's rendering of Zosterops somadikartai, or Togian white-eye
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