Red-tailed Greenbul (Criniger calurus)

Other Names (World)
Red-tailed Greenbul, Red-tailed Bulbul, White-bearded Greenbul

Family
Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1857)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

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
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (41)...)

Red-tailed Greenbul (Criniger calurus) [XC504534]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Mbam et Djerem National Park second camp near the saline, Djerem, Adamawa, Cameroon (call, song)

Red-tailed Greenbul (Criniger calurus) [XC353567]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
Has often been regarded as conspecific with White-bearded Greenbul (Criniger ndussumensis) owing to similarity in appearance, but the two differ both vocally and morphologically. Published reports of hybridization between White-bearded Greenbul (Criniger ndussumensis) and subspecies emini of present species in north-eastern DRCongo seem to be based on observation of individuals apparently showing combination of characters then thought to be restricted to each form.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

verreauxi Sharpe, 1871 - South-western Senegal and south-eastern Guinea-Bissau east to south-western Nigeria.
calurus (Cassin, 1857) - South-western Nigeria east to western DRCongo, also Bioko I.
emini Chapin, 1948 - Western DRCongo and north-eastern Angola east to Uganda and western Tanzania.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-tailed Greenbul (Criniger calurus) - 10 files

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