Northern Kenya's Mt Kulal (see map, p. 380) is a Secondary Area because it is the only locality for the threatened Kulal White-eye Zosterops kulalensis. It is here treated as a full species, following Collar et al. (1994), though Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) and Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1993) consider it to be a form of the widespread Broad-ringed White-eye Z. poliogaster. It is abundant in the mountain forest, but is classified as Critical as by 1980 only 40 km² of the mountain had tree cover, all of which was heavily degraded by cattle (Diamond and Keith 1980).

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BirdLife International (2023) Endemic Bird Areas factsheet: Mount Kulal. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/search on 01/06/2023.