This white-eye inhabits forests and wooded areas in northern and central Philippines. Its yellowish belly helps identify it, and it feeds on tiny invertebrates and fruit.
Its yellowish belly is a useful field mark among white-eyes in the region.
It uses primary and other forest and forest patches in lowlands and hills, mostly up to about 900 m, with rarer records higher. Its diet includes tiny invertebrates, berries and other fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.