Chestnut-flanked White-eye

Zosterops erythropleurus Swinhoe, 1863

Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Zosterops erythropleurus, is a bird of the Palearctic and Southeast Asia, belonging to the white-eye family. It breeds in Manchuria and moves south in winter to central China, Yunnan and northern Southeast Asia. It is associated with forests, especially deeper mixed and coniferous woodland, and also uses poplar, alder and willow stands, thickets and groves. Its key feature is the chestnut marking on the flanks, with a pinkish bill base and lower mandible sometimes present. The underparts are whiter, and it is similar to the Japanese white-eye, which has paler brown flanks.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae — White-eyes

Breeding range

Palearctic: e, also Southeast Asia