Green white-eye explained

The green white-eye (Zosterops stuhlmanni) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The green white-eye was formerly treated as a subspecies of the African yellow white-eye (since renamed the northern yellow white-eye) (Zosterops senegalensis). It is now considered as a separate species based in part on the phylogenetic relationships determined in a 2013 molecular study.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Four subspecies are recognised:^[4]

• Z. s. stuhlmanni Reichenow, 1892 – northwest Tanzania, south and central Uganda
• Z. s. reichenowi Dubois, AJC, 1911 – east D.R. Congo
• Z. s. toroensis Reichenow, 1904 – northeast D.R. Congo and west Uganda
• Z. s. scotti Neumann, 1899 – southwest Uganda: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and above in the Virunga Mountains

Notes and References

1. Cox . S.C. . 2013 . Molecular Systematics and Diversification of African Zosteropidae (Aves: Passeriformes) . PhD . University College London .
2. Cox . S.C. . Prys-Jones . R.P. . Habel . J.C. . Amakobe . B.A. . Day . J.J. . 2014 . Niche divergence promotes rapid diversification of East African sky island white-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae) . Molecular Ecology . 23 . 16 . 4103–4118 . 10.1111/mec.12840 . free . 24954273 . 4255762 . 2014MolEc..23.4103C .
3. Pearson . D.J. . Turner . D.A. . 2017 . A taxonomic review of the genus Zosterops in East Africa, with a revised list of species occurring in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania . Scopus . 37 . 1–13 .
4. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes . World Bird List Version 9.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 25 January 2019 .