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title: "Swinhoe's White-eye"
description: "Zosterops simplex — Birds. Swinhoe's white-eye (Zosterops simplex) is a bird species in the white-eye family, Zosteropidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/swinhoe-s-white-eye
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Swinhoe's White-eye

> Zosterops simplex — Birds. Swinhoe's white-eye (Zosterops simplex) is a bird species in the white-eye family, Zosteropidae.

- Scientific name: *Zosterops simplex*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 13833
- Wikidata: [Q40660989](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40660989)
- iNaturalist taxon: [980257](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/980257)

## Names

- en: Swinhoe's White-eye
- de: Japanbrillenvogel
- es: Anteojitos de Swinhoe
- fr: Zostérops de Swinhoe

## Countries with the most observations

TW (4218), US (2297), HK (2137), CN (1866), SG (709), TH (220), MO (155), VN (126), MY (69), MX (24), KR (20), ID (9)

## Summary

Swinhoe's white-eye (Zosterops simplex) is a bird species in the white-eye family, Zosteropidae. It is found in eastern China, Taiwan, north Vietnam, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Additionally, populations have also been introduced to Southern California, where their population has been expanding rapidly.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinhoe%27s_white-eye

## Photo

![Swinhoe's White-eye](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/swinhoe-s-white-eye/medium.jpg)

Photo: Aiken Lau · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177302424

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/swinhoe-s-white-eye?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).