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Indian White-eye
Zosterops palpebrosus · Family Zosteropidae
Zosterops palpebrosus
Family Zosteropidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 362,848
- Countries and territories with records
- 31
About this species
This species has 362,848 occurrence records from 31 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (86.9%), Nepal (3.4%), Sri Lanka (3.2%), Thailand (1.7%) and China (1.2%); together they account for 96.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.51% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Zosterops palpebrosus combines the genus name Zosterops with the species epithet palpebrosus. 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 virens.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Zosteropidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zosterops lateralis. Its record count is 12.9 times the family average (28,156). The family Zosteropidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.