Birds Thru My Eyes : CHINA / HONG KONG: Japanese White-eye

Thursday, 16 October 2014

Japanese White-eye

Order - Passeriformes 雀形目
Family - Zosteropidae 绣眼鸟科 (White-eyes)
Genus - Zosterops 绣眼鸟属

Japanese White-eye

Zosterops japonicus

暗绿绣眼鸟

Size : 10–11.5 cm; 7.5–13.9 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Zosterops japonicus japonicus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) – Japanese White-eye
– S Sakhalin, Japan (including Sado, Oki, Tsushima, Iki, and Goto Is) and coastal S Korean Peninsula.
Zosterops japonicus insularis (Ogawa, 1905)
– extreme N Ryukyu Is (Tanegashima, Yakushima and Kumejima).
Zosterops japonicus loochooensis (Tristram, 1889)
– Ryukyu Is (except extreme N) S to Yonaguni.
Zosterops japonicus daitoensis (Nagamichi Kuroda, 1923)
– Borodino Is (Kita-daito-jima and Minami-daito-jima).
Zosterops japonicus stejnegeri (Seebohm, 1891)
– Oshima (Izu Is) S to Torishima (Nanpo Archipelago).
Zosterops japonicus alani (E. J. O. Hartert, 1905)
– Iwo (Volcano) Is (Kita-iwo-jima, Iwo Jima).
Zosterops japonicus simplex (Swinhoe, 1861) – Chinese White-eye
– E China (extreme S Gansu E to Jiangsu, S to Sichuan, E Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian) and Taiwan and extreme NE Vietnam (E Tonkin); non-breeding SE China S to Thailand and C Indochina.
Zosterops japonicus hainanus (E. J. O. Hartert, 1923)
– Hainan.

Races stejnegeri and alani introduced on Ogasawara (Bonin) Is, where both interbreed.
Nominate race introduced in Singapore and Hawaii (established on all the main islands).