Cape White-Eye
by Eva Lechner
Title
Cape White-Eye
Artist
Eva Lechner
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Cape white-eye (Zosterops virens) is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. It is native to southern Africa.
2nd place in the Contest New Featured Image-February 2020
3rd place in the Contest BIRDS OF AFRICA - PHOTOGRAPHY ONLY-August 2020
This species is about 12 cm long with rounded wings, strong legs, and a conspicuous ring of white feathers round the eyes. The upperparts are green, and the throat and vent are bright yellow. The members of the Z. v. capensis has a grey breast and belly, whereas Z. v. virens has a greenish-yellow breast and belly.
They are very vocal, and constantly keep in touch with soft trilled pee, pree or pirreee callnotes. The song consists of repeated long jerky phrases of sweet reedy notes, varying in pitch, volume and temp, usually starting off with teee teee or pirrup pirrup notes, then becoming a fast rambled jumble of notes, which may incorporate mimicked phrases of other birdcalls.
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February 10th, 2020
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Gary F Richards
Spectacular Cape White-Eye composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! F/L voted
Gary F Richards
Spectacular Cape White-eye composition, lighting, shading, lovely colors and artwork! F/L voted
Don Columbus
Congratulations Eva, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Morris Finkelstein
Fabulous portrait photograph of a Cape White-Eye with great pose, colors, and perspective, Eva! Congratulations on your photo being selected as a Dawn's Delight, by Dawn! F/L