Bulbuls
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Pycnonotidae
Bulbuls are medium-sized songbirds. Some are colourful with yellow, red or orange vents, cheeks, throat or supercilia, but most are drab, with uniform olive brown to black plumage. Some species have distinct crests.There are 130 species worldwide and 19 species which occur in India.
- Crested Finchbill Spizixos canifrons
- Striated Bulbul Pycnonotus striatus
- Grey-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus priocephalus (E)
- Black-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus atriceps
- Andaman Bulbul Pycnonotus fuscoflavescens (Split by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Black-crested Bulbul Pycnonotus flaviventris (Split by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Flame-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus gularis (Split by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005 with Pycnonotus melanicterus restricted to the Black-capped Bulbul endemic to Sri Lanka)
- Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus
- White-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus leucotis
- White-cheeked Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys
- Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer
- Yellow-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus (E)
- Flavescent Bulbul Pycnonotus flavescens
- White-browed Bulbul Pycnonotus luteolus
- White-throated Bulbul Alophoixus flaveolus
- Olive Bulbul Iole virescens
- Yellow-browed Bulbul Acritillas indica
- Ashy Bulbul Hemixos flavala
- Mountain Bulbul Hypsipetes mcclellandi
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- Square-tailed Black Bulbul Hypsipetes ganeesa (Split by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Nicobar Bulbul Hypsipetes nicobariensis
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