Zosterops kaffensis
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The Kafa white-eye (Zosterops kaffensis) is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family, Zosteropidae. It is found in west and southwest Ethiopia as well as on Mount Kulal in north Kenya. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of Ethiopian white-eye.
The Kafa white-eye was formally described in 1902 by the German ornithologist Oscar Neumann from a specimen collected near Anderaccha in the Kaffa region of southwest Ethiopia. He placed the new species in the genus Zosterops and coined the current binomial name Zosterops kaffensis. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek zōstēros meaning "belt" or "girdle" with ōpos meaning "eye". The specific epithet kaffensis is from Kaffa Province, a former kingdom in south-western Ethiopia. The Kafa white-eye was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Ethiopian white-eye. It was elevated to species status based on the divergence of the mitochondrial DNA sequence and differences in plumage. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Addis Ababa | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Kafa white-eye sighting in Addis Ababa on a given day, based on 30 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 40th most-seen of the 109 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May and July
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Kafa white-eye in Addis Ababa on a given day, against under 5% in June, August and December, the lowest months. Those are among Addis Ababa's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in January.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Kafa white-eye sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Addis Ababa, in our data
Addis Ababa is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Kafa white-eye sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Kafa white-eye is recorded against all the birds logged in Addis Ababa (30 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
