Green White-eye

Green White-eye

Zosterops stuhlmanni

Silhouette: Ferran Sayol · PhyloPic

Daily sighting probability ~50% · Likely
at Volcanoes National Park

In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%

234 Verified sightings at Volcanoes National Park From 2019 to 2026
3,526 In all 10 parks
October Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Green White-eye

The green white-eye (Zosterops stuhlmanni) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The green white-eye was formerly treated as a subspecies of the African yellow white-eye (since renamed the northern yellow white-eye) (Zosterops senegalensis). It is now considered as a separate species based in part on the phylogenetic relationships determined in a 2013 molecular study.

Four subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →

Sounds

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Uganda · 2022

© Peter Boesman · XC740066 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Uganda · 2010

© Erik Eggenkamp · XC62752 · CC BY-NC-ND 2.5

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Burundi · 2026

© Bram Piot · XC1082532 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Nyungwe National Park 🇷🇼 Rwanda
~60%
2 Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 🇺🇬 Uganda
~60%
3 Volcanoes National Park 🇷🇼 Rwanda
~50%
4 Kibale National Park 🇺🇬 Uganda
~40%
5 Virunga National Park 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
~30%
6 Semuliki National Park 🇺🇬 Uganda
~20%
7 Lake Mburo National Park 🇺🇬 Uganda
~10%
8 Murchison Falls National Park 🇺🇬 Uganda
<5%
9 Queen Elizabeth National Park 🇺🇬 Uganda
<5%
10 Akagera National Park 🇷🇼 Rwanda
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Kampala 🇺🇬 Uganda
~30%
2 Kigali 🇷🇼 Rwanda
~10%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Green White-eye in Volcanoes National Park?

Likely

About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Green White-eye sighting in Volcanoes National Park on a given day, based on 234 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 11th most-seen of the 156 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Green White-eye in Volcanoes National Park?

March, July–August and October

In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Green White-eye in Volcanoes National Park on a given day, against about 20% in November and December, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Green White-eye?

Between 8 and 11 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green 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.

Which relatives of the Green White-eye live in Volcanoes National Park?

Same order: Passeriformes

The closest relatives of the Green White-eye that you can see in Volcanoes National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Streaky Seedeater (about 90%), Chubb's Cisticola (about 80%) and Common Bulbul (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Green White-eye sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Green White-eye is recorded against all the birds logged in Volcanoes National Park (234 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.

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