The Seram White-eye, Zosterops stalkeri, is a small passerine

Passerine

A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders: with over 5,000 identified species, it has roughly...

 bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the white-eye

White-eye

White-eye can refer to:*White-eye , a large family of birds.*White-eye , a species of fish.*White-eye mutation, a mutation in Drosophila melanogaster linked to the X chromosome, found by reciprocal cross breeding experiments in 1906.*A lioness member of the Marsh Pride of lions that have featured...

 family. It is an endemic resident breeder in open woodland in Seram

Seram

Seram is an island in the Maluku province of Indonesia. It is located north of Ambon Island. The chief port/town is Masohi.- Geography and geology :...

, Indonesia

Indonesia

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It was formerly considered conspecific with Black-fronted White-eye

Black-fronted White-eye

The Black-fronted White-eye is a songbird species. It is closely related to the Old World babblers, and its family Zosteropidae might better be included in the Tiimalidae. Some sources include this species within Z. atrifrons, the Black-crowned White-eye.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea...

, Zosterops minor, but work by Pamela C. Rasmussen

Pamela C. Rasmussen

Professor Pamela Cecile Rasmussen is a prominent American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University...

 and her colleagues showed that it is a separate species. The same research also confirmed the specific status of the Sangihe White-eye

Sangihe White-eye

The Sangihe White-eye is a species of bird in the white-eye family. It is endemic to Sangihe, Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss....

, Zosterops nehrkorni.

Compared to related taxa, the bill of Seram White-eye is paler, deeper, and broader at the base. Its eye-ring is narrow and broken at the front. The crown and sides of the head are black and the upperparts are dark bronze. The rump is a distinctive yellow-bronze. The sides of the breast and flanks are greyish-white, the undertail-coverts are orange-yellow, the thighs are whitish, and the
uppertail is brownish-black.

The sexes are similar, but immatures have the throat greener and more diffuse, with more black mixed into the chin feathers.

Its song also differs from that of related species.

Though mainly insectivorous, the Seram White-eye will also eat nectar and fruits of various kinds.