Identification: Small bird with a grey body, white ring around the eye, olive-green wing and buff underwing.
 

Call/Song:  Makes a drawn-out cheew made at night during migration. Also makes a sweet, repeated warble sound: Dave Stewart -used with permission

 
Found along eastern and southern Austraila, from Cape York (Queensland) through to Western Australia.

Habitat: Inhabits open forest, cultivated areas and open parklands.

Feeding: Feed on fruits, seeds, nectar and insects. Usually prefers to feed low in trees.

Breeding/Nesting: Breeds from August through to February and may raise two, possibly three broods in this time. Suspends a small cup-like nest form a small, horizontal branch.

Movement: Migratory, with some of the silvereyes in Lamington having migrated from as far as Tasmania each year (1500km). Travel by night but may drift during the day for feeding. 

Other Common Names: White-eye, grey-breasted silvereye, blight-bird, grape-eater, ring-eye. 

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Queensland Museum (1995) Wildlife of Greater Brisbane, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Reader's Digest Services (1979) Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds, Surry Hills, NSW.