Sunday, November 2, 2025

Miscellaneous: The Warbling White-eye

You learn something new every day, they say. It seems to be so. Today I learned that the Japanese bird pictured here, known in Japanese as a "Mejiro" ("white-eye"), is not the "Japanese White-eye" I've been calling it. That name appears to have been superseded. Apparently there was a species split in 2018 I was unaware of. The bird common in Japan (along with a number of  subsepecies with ranges further south) is now properly known as  "Warbling White-eye" (still Zosterops japonicus). Closely related birds that were previously considered con-specific (along with a group of other subspecies) are "Swinhoe's White-eye" (Zosterops simplex). 

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