Birdie from Southern Japan

[Loupey]

Recently returned from abroad. My longest lens was a 24-105mm and found myself surrounded by many warbler-like and vireo-ish birds.

Skittish as its North American counterpart but finally approached one that was too busy eating. Still, this is a high crop.

[janicee]

The bird blended well with the leaves. Actually its like a leaves to me also. Its such a cutee!

[scott-devon]

Nice shot Loupey, great to see it in it's habitat too.

[DennisT]

And here's one from Southern Africa, Loupey, we call it the Cape White-eye (Zosterops virens)
Same bird I wonder???

[DennisT]

mmmmmmmmmmmm Maybe not - light eye vs dark eye!

[CaraRose]

I'd bet they're closely related, from googling, Loupey's is a Japanese White Eye.

[Loupey]

Thanks for looking, everyone.

I'd bet they're closely related, from googling, Loupey's is a Japanese White Eye.

LOL, Cara! So after traveling there, taking early morning walks to try to get a shot, then coming back here and posting the image, and finally having a way to ID the bird (using your white eye reference), I find out that the local name for the bird is a mejiro. I spoke to my mother if she knew of the mejiro and she said "oh yes, they are trash birds - they steal rice" and consider them to be in the same league with crows


EDIT: my mother retracted her earlier comment. She said the mejiro are OK - she was thinking of another bird from her childhood days.

[AgingEyes]

Beautiful bird !! The one from South Africa and the one from Japanese do look alike. The eyes in Dennis looks darker, but I wonder if that has to do with the perspective and exposure

[SARtech]

that first shot reminds me of Japanese paintings

[paulnj]

Correct Cararose, that is indeed a japanese white eye. They are actually the same as our house sparrows or starlings, but far nicer looking

[Singletracklovr]

Thanks for looking, everyone.



LOL, Cara! So after traveling there, taking early morning walks to try to get a shot, then coming back here and posting the image, and finally having a way to ID the bird (using your white eye reference), I find out that the local name for the bird is a mejiro. I spoke to my mother if she knew of the mejiro and she said "oh yes, they are trash birds - they steal rice" and consider them to be in the same league with crows


EDIT: my mother retracted her earlier comment. She said the mejiro are OK - she was thinking of another bird from her childhood days.

No matter what it eats or how it spends it's day it's a beautiful bird.
Oh, welcome back Loupey.