Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer)

Family
Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)

Size
20 - 23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, urban areas, rural gardens, plantations.

Range (Guide)

Afghanistan (B) (NB), Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.

Introduced to Fiji, French Polynesia, Kuwait (B), New Caledonia, New Zealand (E) (B), Oman, Qatar (B) (NB), Samoa, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, USA.

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A low-pitched, whistled 'be-quick-quick'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (151)...)

Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus) [XC836230]
by Frank Lambert from Nagarkot (north), Kavrepalanchok District, Bagmati Province, Nepal (call)

Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) [XC311481]
by Marc Anderson from Kitulgala village area, Sri Lanka (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) and sometimes treated as conspecific.

In north-western India, often hybridizes with Himalayan Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucogenys). Sometimes hybridizes also with White-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis). Subspecies saturatus was invalidated (and replaced by wetmorei), as preoccupied by a subspecies of Andropadus latirostris, which was previously placed in present genus. Several described subspecies considered too weakly differentiated and therefore synonymized: thus, in India, primrosei (Assam) and afer (Meghalaya) are junior synonyms of bengalensis, and vicinus (Mysore) and pusillus (north-eastern Tamil Nadu) junior synonyms of nominate.

The following 11 subspecies are recognised:

intermedius Blyth, 1846 - Western Himalayas from Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir eastern at least to Nepal.
humayuni Deignan, 1951 - South-eastern Pakistan (Sind) and north-western and north-central India (including northern plains).
bengalensis Blyth, 1845 - Central and eastern Himalayas and Gangetic Plain, and Bangladesh.
stanfordi Deignan, 1949 - North-eastern India (southern Assam hills), northern Myanmar and southern China (western Yunnan).
melanchimus Deignan, 1949 - Southern Myanmar and northern Thailand.
saturatus (Whistler and Kinnear, 1932) - North-eastern Peninsular India.
cafer (Linnaeus, 1766) - Southern India.
haemorrhousus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) - Sri Lanka.
wetmorei Deignan, 1960 - North-eastern peninsular India.
primrosei Deignan, 1949 - Southern Assam (southern of the Brahmaputra), Bangladesh and West Bengal.
pusillus Blyth, 1841 - Southern India (Bombay, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra to Kerala).

References
See References.

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