Northern populations thrive in brushy woodlands of all kinds, from forests to urban gardens.\u00a0 Southern populations inhabit the same types of woodlands in the humid tropics, mostly at foothill elevations.<\/p>

Peculiarly scattered across many archipelagos, comprising two sets of populations formerly classified under separate species, which have been reclassified based on studies of genetics, vocalizations, and other factors.\u00a0 The distinction is perhaps best preserved in part by regarding them as potentially distinct forms: \u201cJapanese\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cMountain\u201d White-eyes<\/strong> (japonicus<\/em> and montanus<\/em>).<\/p>

\u201cJapanese White-eye\u201d<\/strong>: six recognized subspecies that occur throughout the Japanese Archipelago and north onto southern Sakhalin, west to the southern Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands, and south to the Ryukyu, Daito, Izu, and Ogasawara Islands.<\/p>

Northerly breeding populations of Sakhalin, Hokkaido, and northern Honshu are migratory and withdraw to southern Japan for the winter.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t