Northern Yellow White-eye

About the Northern Yellow White-eye

The northern yellow white-eye (Zosterops senegalensis), formerly the African yellow white-eye, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is found across sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west across to southern Sudan in the east and south to northern Angola. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Angola white-eye.

The northern yellow white-eye formerly included additional subspecies. These were split to create the southern yellow white-eye and the green white-eye based partly on the results of a molecular phylogenic study in 2013.

Four subspecies are recognised: Z. s. senegalensis Bonaparte, 1850 – Mauritania and Senegal to northwest Ethiopia Z. s. jacksoni Neumann, 1899 – west Kenya and north Tanzania Z. s. demeryi Büttikofer, 1890 – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast

Z. s. gerhardi Elzen & König, C, 1983 – south Sudan and northeast Uganda A small yellow bird with a prominent white eye ring surrounding a dark eye. The underparts and head are yellow, with a black loral stripe, black bill, the flight and tail feathers are brown edged with yellowish olive. Some subspecies are greener, especially those occurring in forest... Wikipedia →