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Zosterops virens · Family Zosteropidae

Zosterops virens

Family Zosteropidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Zosteropidae
GBIF occurrence records
301,362
Countries and territories with records
19
Cape White-eye
Hector Bottai · Zosterops virens capensis Cape white eye, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, crop.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hector Bottai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · JMK · Zosterops_virens_caniviridis,_sang,_voorstedelike_Pretoria,_2018-2-17_10h48.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · JMK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 301,362 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). South Africa accounts for 99.1% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.75% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Zosterops virens combines the genus name Zosterops with the species epithet virens. 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 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zosterops lateralis. Its record count is 10.7 times the family average (28,156). The family Zosteropidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Zosteropidae

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