#zosterops

[fishsfailureson]

Silvereye/tauhou/Zosterops lateralis

Doing an art challenge for bird of the year 2025. Prompt list is by a mutual on cara.

Let's hope I don't forget to vote this time.

[a-disaster-piece]

Cape White-eye (Zosterops virens); Garden Route, South Africa

White-eyes are everywhere, but also so difficult to manage a good photo, since they are just so fast, hardly ever sitting still. Glad this one (sort of) obliged me for a moment.

Fun fact: The general name for white-eye species in Afrikaans is "glasogie/glaasogie," which directly translates to "glass eye"...you can clearly see why!

[life-take]

Small painting of Swinhoe’s white-eye

[petit-homme-vert]

Swinhoe's white-eye / Zostérops de Swinhoe

Taipei Botanical Garden, Taipei, Taiwan (September 28 2025)

[all-bird-creechur]

Black-ringed White-eye Zosterops anomalus

It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Least Concern

image by boasemmanuel

[best-bird-tournament]

Typical white-eye (Zosterops) runoff

Which is the best bird?

Silvereye

Mauritius grey white-eye

Broad-ringed white-eye

Green white-eye

Voting ended onSep 3, 2025

[herpsandbirds]

Indian White-eyes (Zosterops palpebrosus), going bunta, family Zosteropidae, order Passeriformes, India

Formerly known as the "Oriental White-eye", but for obvious reasons, the common name was changed.

photograph by Goutam Barman

[m00nb04rd5]

Sana Hudson/Watcher of The Woods (Balan Wonderworld)