Extinct in recent times The White-chested white-eye was native only to a forest area of five square kilometers at Mount Pitt on Norfolk Island. Norfolk Island lies east of Australia and north of New Zealand. Experts assume the bird species went extinct in recent times. The last confirmed sighting of
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Drawing of the White-chested white-eye by John Gould (between 1840 and 1848). Gould was the first to describe the songbird scientifically in 1937. (© Rawpixel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
