Animal field guide
Oriental White-eye
Zosterops palpebrosus
A tiny warbler-like songbird, yellow-green above with a ring of white feathers around each eye. It is rarely seen alone: small parties move through foliage together, calling constantly, and often join other small birds in mixed feeding flocks.
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Animal · South Asia · Open woodland · Relatively common
Known for: Bold white ring around the eye, Bright yellow throat and undertail, Yellow-green upperparts and pale greyish belly, Short pointed black bill
Animal field guide
Oriental White-eye
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A tiny warbler-like songbird, yellow-green above with a ring of white feathers around each eye. It is rarely seen alone: small parties move through foliage together, calling constantly, and often join other small birds in mixed feeding flocks.
Native range
Natural range, not this capture location
Open woodland, forest edges, scrub, mangroves, plantations, parks and gardens, from the lowlands into the hills and, in the Himalaya, to around 2,000 metres or more.
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Dominance
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Speed
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Size
5
Intelligence
30
Rarity
10%
Total
105
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Understand the animal
Understand the Oriental White-eye
Factual biology first: what this animal is like, where it lives, how it survives, and why those traits exist.
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Introduction to Oriental White-eye
A tiny warbler-like songbird, yellow-green above with a ring of white feathers around each eye. It is rarely seen alone: small parties move through foliage together, calling constantly, and often join other small birds in mixed feeding flocks.
How to identify a Oriental White-eye
- Bold white ring around the eye
- Bright yellow throat and undertail
- Yellow-green upperparts and pale greyish belly
- Short pointed black bill
- Warbler-sized, about 10 centimetres long
Why Oriental White-eye are interesting
- Flock mates often preen each other, a behaviour that helps keep small parties together.
- By taking nectar it carries pollen between flowers of the trees it visits.
- In parts of the Himalaya some birds are thought to move to lower altitudes for the winter.
- It is trapped for the cage-bird trade in parts of its range.
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Adaptations and biological abilities
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Why does Oriental White-eye behave this way?
- Bold white ring around the eye
- Bright yellow throat and undertail
- Yellow-green upperparts and pale greyish belly
- Short pointed black bill
- Warbler-sized, about 10 centimetres long
Active by day. At night birds roost in dense foliage, and several birds are often reported perching pressed side by side along one branch.
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Why Open woodland?
Habitat: Open woodland, forest edges, scrub, mangroves, plantations, parks and gardens, from the lowlands into the hills and, in the Himalaya, to around 2,000 metres or more.
Native range: South Asia, Southeast Asia
Native range
Natural range, not this specific capture location.
Open woodland, forest edges, scrub, mangroves, plantations, parks and gardens, from the lowlands into the hills and, in the Himalaya, to around 2,000 metres or more.
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Why this diet?
Small insects and spiders gleaned from leaves and twigs, plus nectar from flowers and soft fruit and berries. It hangs from twigs to reach undersides and probes blossoms with a brush-tipped tongue.
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Activity, rest, and lifespan
Active by day. At night birds roost in dense foliage, and several birds are often reported perching pressed side by side along one branch.
Lifespan in the wild has not been reliably documented for this species; most wild birds probably live only a few years.
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Oriental White-eye reproduction
The small cup nest is slung from a forked twig. Two or three pale blue eggs are usual; both parents incubate for about 10 to 12 days and feed the young, which fledge after roughly another 10 days.
Males and females look alike and cannot be told apart in the field.
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Predators, threats, and defense
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Conservation and rarity
Rarity: Relatively common · 10/100. AnimalDex canonical rarity score: 10/100, maintained by the live indexed species profile.
- Observe from a respectful distance and avoid changing the animal's behavior.
- Do not block feeding, shelter, nesting, or travel routes.
- Use a live camera capture without handling or staging wildlife.
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Speak to the Oriental White-eye
It answers as itself: ask about how it lives, or bring it something of yours and hear what it would do, from its own Power.
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Where to find them
Where to find Oriental White-eye
To find Oriental White-eye in the wild, focus on the exact habitat patches that match its body design and daily behavior, not just the broad country where it exists. You usually do better by working one good piece of habitat inside south Asia, Southeast Asia than by covering too much ground.
- Quiet marsh edges, reedbeds, river bends, or shallow wetland margins
- Forest edge, canopy gaps, fruiting trees, or shaded trails where cover and food meet
- Protected habitat blocks within south Asia, Southeast Asia
Scientific name
Zosterops palpebrosus
Category
Animal
Habitat
Open woodland, forest edges, scrub, mangroves, plantations, parks and gardens, from the lowlands into the hills and, in the Himalaya, to around 2,000 metres or more.
Rarity
Relatively common · 10/100
Native range
South Asia, Southeast Asia
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