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Swinhoe's white-eye
Zosterops simplex · Family Zosteropidae
Zosterops simplex
Family Zosteropidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 588,383
- Countries and territories with records
- 18
About this species
This species has 588,383 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (73%), the United States (11.5%), Hong Kong (6.2%), China (4.8%) and Singapore (1.8%); together they account for 97.4% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Zosterops simplex combines the genus name Zosterops with the species epithet simplex. 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 palpebrosus and Zosterops virens.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Zosteropidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zosterops lateralis. Its record count is 20.9 times the family average (28,156). The family Zosteropidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.