- Pycnonotus goiavier
Identification
19–20·5 cm (7½-8 in)
- Olive brown crown, nape, underparts
- White face and side of head, eyebrow, throat, belly
- Black lores
- Breast whitish streaked brown
- Yellow under tail coverts
- Black bill, feet, eyes
- No white on tail
Distribution
Southeast Asia: found in Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Malay Peninsula, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines, Borneo, Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas and Bali.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 7 subspecies[1]:
- P. g. jambu:
- P. g. personatus:
- Malay Peninsula, Riau Archaepelago, Sumatra, Bangka and Belitung island
- P. g. analis:
- P. g. gourdini :
- Borneo and Maratua Islands
- P. g. goiavier:
- Northern and central Philippines
- P. g. samarensis:
- Philippines (Bohol, Cebu, Leyte, Samar, Ticao and Biliran)
- P. g. suluensis:
- Southern Philippines (Mindanao, Basilan, Camiguin Sur and Sulu Archawpelago)
Habitat
Mangroves and coastal scrub, parks, gardens, and plantations.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet is wide and includes berries, seeds and small fruits, especially figs and cinnamon tree fruits, nectar, young shoots, and insects.
Breeding
They build well-camouflaged but flimsy, cup-shaped nests from grass, leaves, roots, vine stems, twigs, lined with plant fibres. The clutch consists of 2-5 white or pinkish eggs with heavily spotted with reddish-brown to lavender markings. Both parents incubate and raise the young.
They can raise several broods each year.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2018)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Yellow-vented Bulbul. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-vented_Bulbul
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