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Warbling white-eye
Zosterops japonicus · Family Zosteropidae
Zosterops japonicus
Family Zosteropidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 299,100
- Countries and territories with records
- 23
About this species
This species has 299,100 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (49.1%), Japan (25.5%), Taiwan (20.1%), South Korea (2.9%) and the Philippines (1.9%); together they account for 99.5% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.013% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Zosterops japonicus combines the genus name Zosterops with the species epithet japonicus. The Warbla app catalog lists 93 species of the genus Zosterops; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Zosterops lateralis, Zosterops simplex and Zosterops palpebrosus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Zosteropidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zosterops lateralis. Its record count is 10.6 times the family average (28,156). The family Zosteropidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.