Zosterops flavilateralis
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The pale white-eye also known as Kenya white-eye (Zosterops flavilateralis) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in Kenya, eastern Tanzania, southern Ethiopia and southern Somalia. The pale white-eye was formally described in 1892 by the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow under the current binomial name Zosterops flavilateralis. The specific epithet flavilateralis combines Latin flavus meaning "yellow" with lateralis meaning "of the sides". The pale white-eye was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Abyssinian white-eye (Zosterops abyssinicus) but is now treated as a separate species.
Two subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mkomazi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 2 | Tsavo West National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 3 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 4 | Arusha National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 5 | Meru National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 6 | Lake Manyara National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 7 | Tsavo East National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 8 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 9 | Tarangire National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 10 | Amboseli National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pale White-eye sighting in Tsavo West National Park on a given day, based on 153 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 96th most-seen of the 380 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October to December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Pale White-eye in Tsavo West National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, the lowest month. Those are among Tsavo West National Park's wettest months, with about 95 mm of rain a month against 5 mm in July.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pale White-eye sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 10
Of the 10 parks where we can rate Pale White-eye sightings, Tsavo West National Park ranks 2nd at about 20%. The best odds are in Mkomazi National Park (Tanzania, about 30%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Pale White-eye that you can see in Tsavo West National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Superb Starling (about 70%), White-browed Sparrow-Weaver (about 60%) and Fork-tailed Drongo (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pale White-eye is recorded against all the birds logged in Tsavo West National Park (153 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
