Most of the common names for Zosterops lateralis are based on its most striking feature: the rings around the eyes of the adults. Silvereye, wax-eye, white-eye. Even its genus name, Zosterops, refers to the eye ring: it means “eye girdle”. Looking beyond the bright eye ring, though, the silvereye has an astonishing array of striking colours, from the intensity of the yellow-green feathers on its head and back to the depth of colour in its blue-grey cape, its pale grey breast and the rusty-peach coloured sides. This silvereye is sitting on a bottlebrush (Callistemon) bush.
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