White-spectacled Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos)

Other Names (World)
White-spectacled Bulbul, White-eyed Bulbul, Yellow-vented Bulbul(!), Black-capped Bulbul

Family
Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Ehrenberg, 1833)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland and foreest. From sea-level - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Egypt, Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Lebanon (B), Oman (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Syrian Arab Republic (B), Turkey (B) (NB), United Arab Emirates (B), Yemen (B).

Vagrant to Iraq.

Eastern Mediterranean from central-southern Turkey, western Syria, Lebanon, Israel and western Jordan south to north-eastern Egypt (Sinai), also western and central Iraq, western and southern Saudi Arabia, Yemen, northern United Arab Emirates and northern and south-western Oman.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 100,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (96)...)

White-spectacled Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos) [XC678183]
by Oscar Campbell from Yumurtal\u0131k, Adana, Turkey (uncertain)

White-spectacled Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos) [XC371236]
by Matthias Feuersenger from Wadi Darbat, Dhofar, Oman (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms superspecies with Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus), Cape Bulbul (Pycnonotus capensis), Black-fronted Bulbul (Pycnonotus nigricans), White-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis) and Himalayan Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucogenys), possibly including some other species. No hybrids with Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus) are known, and ranges apparently barely meet, but an old record of a mixed pair reported.

References
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