BirdUp · Species
Silvereye
Zosterops lateralis(Latham, 1801)
Also known asTauhou
- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Genus
- Zosterops
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The silvereye or wax-eye, also known by its Māori name tauhou, is a very small omnivorous passerine bird of the south-west Pacific. In Australia and New Zealand its common name is sometimes white-eye, but this name is more commonly used to refer to all members of the genus Zosterops, or the entire family Zosteropidae.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- AU, PO : Australia, New Zealand and outlying is., New Caledonia and west Pacific is. to Fiji (south-west Polynesia)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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04 · Voice
What it sounds like
flight · Quality B
Richard Fuller · Carindale, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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