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Genus: Pycnonotus (34 species)


Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) Range: OR: se Asia Thailand
Photograph by Steve Riall © All Rights Reserved.


Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster aurigaster) Range: OR: se Asia Gardenia Country Inn, Tomohon, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus) Range: AF: ne, n, w, c Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

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Orange-spotted Bulbul (Pycnonotus bimaculatus) Near Threatened Range: OR: montane c, s Sumatra and Java

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Ayeyarwady Bulbul (Pycnonotus blanfordi) Range: OR: Myanmar


Asian Red-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonotus brunneus brunneus) Range: OR: Malay Pen., Sumatra and Borneo Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) Range: OR: Himalayas, India, Myanmar Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Possible immature lacking red vent.


Cape Bulbul (Pycnonotus capensis) Range: AF: w, s South Africa South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

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Ashy-fronted Bulbul (Pycnonotus cinereifrons) Range: OR: Palawan (sw Philippines)


Streak-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus conradi) Range: OR: Thailand and n, c Malay Pen. to s Indochina Kaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.

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Pale-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonotus davisoni) Range: OR: w, sc, se Myanmar


Dodson's Bulbul (Pycnonotus dodsoni) Range: AF: n Somalia and se Ethiopia to ec Kenya Dubuluk, Ethiopia
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Stripe-throated Bulbul (Pycnonotus finlaysoni) Range: OR: s China, Thailand, s Indochina and Malay Pen. Kaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Flavescent Bulbul (Pycnonotus flavescens vividus) Range: OR: se Asia Mae Wong National Park, Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
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Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier) Range: OR: s se Asia to Philippines, Borneo and Sumbawa (w Lesser Sundas) Kent Ridge Park, Singapore
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Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) Range: OR: widespread Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Himalayan Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucogenys) Range: PAL: Himalayas India
Photograph by Sylvère Corre © All Rights Reserved.


Pale-faced Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucops) Range: OR: montane Borneo Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
Photograph by David Cook Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Found in primary forest in Borneo from about 900m to 3500m.


White-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis) Range: PAL: sw Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


White-browed Bulbul (Pycnonotus luteolus luteolus) Range: OR: India Bangalore, India
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African Red-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonotus nigricans) Range: AF: sw South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Yellow-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus penicillatus) Range: OR: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Photograph by Stephen G. Davis © All Rights Reserved.


Olive-winged Bulbul (Pycnonotus plumosus plumosus) Range: OR: s Myanmar and s Thailand, Malay Pen., Greater Sundas Panti Forest Reserve, Johor, Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.

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Cream-eyed Bulbul (Pycnonotus pseudosimplex) Range: OR: Borneo


Cream-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus simplex simplex) Range: OR: Malay Pen., Sumatra, Borneo and Java Panti Forest Reserve, Johor, Malaysia
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.


Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis formosae) Range: OR: c, s China, n Vietnam, Taiwan Taiwan
Photograph by Bob Du © All Rights Reserved.

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Aceh Bulbul (Pycnonotus snouckaerti) Endangered Range: OR: montane nw Sumatra

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Somali Bulbul (Pycnonotus somaliensis) Range: AF: Djibouti, nw Somalia and ne Ethiopia


Styan's Bulbul (Pycnonotus taivanus) Vulnerable Range: OR: Taiwan Taiwan
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Dark-capped Bulbul (Pycnonotus tricolor tricolor) Range: AF: c, e, se Sakania, Democratic Republic of Congo
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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Spot-necked Bulbul (Pycnonotus tympanistrigus) Range: OR: montane Sumatra


Yellow-throated Bulbul (Pycnonotus xantholaemus) Vulnerable Range: OR: India Karnataka, India
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


White-spectacled Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos) Range: PAL: s Turkey and Syria to Yemen and Oman Saudi Arabia
Photograph by Ammadoux © All Rights Reserved.


Brown-breasted Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthorrhous xanthorrhous) Range: OR: c, s China to Myanmar and n Thailand Doi Angkhang, Chiangmai, Thailand
Photograph by Somchai Kanchanasut © All Rights Reserved.


Straw-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus) Critically Endangered Range: OR: Malay Pen., Sumatra (where perhaps extinct), Java (where probably extinct) and Borneo Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

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