Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Swinhoe's White-eye
Zosterops simplex
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A pocket-sized green spark with painted-on eye-rings, drifting through subtropical gardens in busy little flocks. Once lumped with the Japanese White-eye, now a species of its own.
- Population
- abundant across range
- Habitat
- woodland, mangroves, parks and gardens across eastern China, Taiwan, the Ryukyus and northern Southeast Asia
- Diet
- nectar, small insects, fruit pulp and berries
- Size
- 0.11 m
- Wingspan
- 0.16 m
