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title: "Szlarnik rdzawoboczny"
description: "Zosterops lateralis — Ptaki. The silvereye or wax-eye (Zosterops lateralis), also known by its Māori name tauhou, is a very small omnivorous passerine bird of the south-west Pacific."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/silvereye
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Szlarnik rdzawoboczny

> Zosterops lateralis — Ptaki. The silvereye or wax-eye (Zosterops lateralis), also known by its Māori name tauhou,  is a very small omnivorous passerine bird of the south-west Pacific.

- Scientific name: *Zosterops lateralis*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las), `urban` (Miasta i ogrody)
- iNaturalist observations: 24889
- Wikidata: [Q313394](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313394)
- iNaturalist taxon: [202505](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202505)

## Names

- en: Silvereye
- de: Graumantel-Brillenvogel
- es: Anteojitos dorsigrís
- fr: Zostérops à dos gris
- pl: Szlarnik rdzawoboczny

## Countries with the most observations

AU (13030), NZ (6600), FJ (105), PF (94), NC (67), NF (38), VU (31)

## Summary

The silvereye or wax-eye (Zosterops lateralis), 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.
In New Zealand, the silvereye was first recorded in 1832. It arrived in greater numbers in 1856, and it is assumed that a migrating flock was swept eastwards by a storm. As an apparently self-introduced bird it is protected as a native New Zealand species. Its Māori name, tauhou…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvereye

## Photo

![Szlarnik rdzawoboczny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/silvereye/medium.jpg)

Photo: John Cull · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165259415

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/silvereye?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).