- Neolestes torquatus
Identification
Strange, medium sized Bulbul with a large head and a rather short bill.
Forehead, crown and nape neutral grey.
Mantle, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts distinctly olive green. Tertials and wing-coverts dusky black with broad olive green margins. Secondaries dark olive with very thin yellow margins, primaries blackish.
Tail olive green.
lores black, eyestripe black and continuing around the rear of the ear-coverts, down the sides of the neck and meeting across the upper breast in a clean cut, broadish breastband.Chin and throat white, ear-coverts white, washed buffy.
The rest of the underparts very pale olive, washed grey. The bright buttercup yellow underwing-coverts show as a thin yellow line on the folded wing, between the carpal joint and the base of the alula. Eye dark, bill and legs black.
Distribution
Africa
Western Africa: Gabon, Congo, extreme eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), western Angola
Eastern Africa: Zambia
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Dry wooded savanna and gallery forest.
Behaviour
Vocalisation
Fast, liquid "Bulbul" type.
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-collared Bulbul. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-collared_Bulbul
External Links
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