Silvereye

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae

Genus

Zosterops

eBird Code

silver3

Vocalizations

Subspecies (16)

• Zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus

  eastern Australia (Capricorn and Bunker islands, east of southern Queensland)

• Zosterops lateralis chloronotus

  southwestern Australia (Shark Bay to southwestern South Australia)

• Zosterops lateralis cornwalli

  eastern Australia (Bowen, northeastern Queensland, northern Queensland, to Hunter River, New South Wales)

• Zosterops lateralis flaviceps

  Fiji

• Zosterops lateralis griseonota

  Grande Terre and Île des Pins (New Caledonia)

• Zosterops lateralis lateralis

  breeds Tasmania (southeastern Australia) and Flinders Island (northeast of Tasmania); winters coastal eastern Australia; colonized New Zealand about 1832 and Norfolk Island (east of Australia) in 1904

• Zosterops lateralis melanops

  Lifou (Loyalty Islands; New Caledonia)

• Zosterops lateralis nigrescens

  Loyalty Islands (Ouvéa and Maré; New Caledonia)

• Zosterops lateralis ochrochrous

  southeastern Australia (King Island, northwest of Tasmania)

• Zosterops lateralis pinarochrous

  central southern Australia (Eyre Peninsula to northwestern Victoria and southwestern New South Wales)

• Zosterops lateralis tephropleurus

  Lord Howe Island (east of Australia)

• Zosterops lateralis tropicus

  Espiritu Santo Island (Vanuatu)

• Zosterops lateralis valuensis

  Vanua Lava Island (Vanuatu)

• Zosterops lateralis vatensis

  Malekula to Tanna (central and southern Vanuatu)

• Zosterops lateralis vegetus

  northeastern Australia (northeastern Cape York Peninsula to Wet Tropics region)

• Zosterops lateralis westernensis

  southeastern Australia (southeastern New South Wales to central Victoria)