Bulbuls - Pycnonotidae
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Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) are a family of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls.
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Bulbul
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(bl´bl), bird, common name for members of the family Pycnonotidae, comprising 119 species of medium-sized, dull-colored passerine birds with short necks and wings, native to Africa and S Asia.
Bulbuls
Bulbuls are any of about 119 species of birds of Africa and Asia,
including some called greenbuls and brownbuls. Members range in size
5.5 to 11 inches long. They are active, noisy, plain-colored birds
that sometimes damage orchards.
Bulbul, Finsch's Alophoixus finschii Found: Asia
Drawn by John Gerrard Keulemans in the Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum
Left: Dinsch's Bulbul Right: Sulpher-Bellied Bulbul ...
Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
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Black Bulbul (Hypsipetes leucocephalus) is a local resident in Himalayas, north-east and south-west India. Size: 25 cm ...
Red-eyed Bulbul
Pycnonoyus nigricans
The Red-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonoyus nigricans) or Black-fronted Bulbul of some authors, is a very common resident of the arid regions of s.w. Africa.
Black-headed Bulbul
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Red-Whiskered Bulbul
Scientific name: Pycnonotus jocosus
Family: Pycnontidae
Order: Passeriformes
Class: Aves PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: The Red-whiskered Bulbul has a distinct red ear patch, and red tail coverts.
Taiwan bulbul (Pycnonotus taivanus)
Information on the Taiwan bulbul is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly... More 2 Images 0 videos ...
Food
: Bulbuls are omnivores. They will eat fruits, both wild and cultivated and also nectar, insects, and even small lizards.
Straw-headed Bulbul - a victim of the cage-bird trade
Once widespread and common in suitable habitat throughout the Sundaic (or Sundaland) lowlands, the Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus has declined dramatically.
" Now, first, of the forms of birds which are prevalent throughout the Indian Region, but are entirely wanting in the Australian, we have at once the bulbuls (Ixidae), very characteristic of most parts of Africa and Asia, ...
woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, ...
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Bulbulcus ibis
OTHER NAMES: Cow Bird
DESCRIPTION: The cattle egret (Bulbulcus ibis) belongs to the large Ciconiiformes order of colonial wading birds, which includes various species of herons, ibises, egrets, and bitterns.
On page 146 (& on page 356), you describe the White-cheeked Bulbul, using the scientific name Pycnonotus leucogenys. This is incorrect.
In Africa, thrushes of the genus Alethes follow army-ant swarms, as do some bulbuls in both Africa and Asia.
Others include some Doves and Bulbuls. Among the ducks in North America, there are only three species with red eyes: Red-breasted Merganser (male), Cinnamon Teal (male) and Canvasback.
swooping down to dip its beak in a puddle of water, or a golden oriole sunning itself on a branch, or a coucal, with its distinctive reddish-brown wings, clumsily waddling away into the underbrush, or listen to the 'twit-twoo' cries of the bulbul, ...
 See also: Woodpecker, Flycatcher, Finch, Warbler, Robin
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