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 LC    Sooty-headed Bulbul* Id (Atlas):
    Pycnonotus aurigaster

Description (10)
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Family
Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)

Size
19 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1818)

Habitat
Secondary forest, scrub, cultivated areas, rural gardens, plantations.

Range (Guide)
Cambodia, China (mainland), Hong Kong (China), Indonesia, Laos (B), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

Introduced to Timor-Leste (B) (NB).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A bubbly, cheerful 'witti-wi-i-wit', repeated, the first note sharply downwardly then upwardly inlected. The middle notes being of higher pitch.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (133)...)

 
Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) [XC883688]
     by Geoff Carey from San Tin Fishponds, New Territories, Hong Kong, China (song)

 
Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) [XC233697]
     by nick talbot from Bogor Botanical Gardens, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) and sometimes treated as conspecific.

Proposed subspecies deignani (south-eastern Thailand) and innitens (south-central Thailand) indistinguishable from thais; and chrysorrhoeus, crocorrhous (both Java) and martini (Sumatra) inseparable from nominate. Subspecies chrysorrhoides and resurrectus formerly known respectively as atricapilla and insularis, but these two names invalid, as preoccupied.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

  • latouchei Deignan, 1949   -  Southern China (south-western Sichuan and western and southern Yunnan east to southern Hunan and north-eastern Guangxi) and eastern Myanmar east to north-eastern Thailand, northern Laos and northern Vietnam (western Tonkin).
  • chrysorrhoides (Lafresnaye, 1845)   -  South-eastern China.
  • resurrectus Deignan, 1952   -  Northern Vietnam (eastern Tonkin, northern Annam) and south-eastern China (western Guangdong, Nao Chow Tao).
  • klossi (Gyldenstolpe, 1920)   -  South-eastern Myanmar and northern Thailand.
  • schauenseei Delacour, 1943   -  Southern Myanmar (central Tenasserim) and south-western Thailand.
  • thais (Kloss, 1924)   -  Central and south-eastern Thailand and central Laos.
  • dolichurus Deignan, 1949   -  Central Vietnam (central Annam).
  • germani (Oustalet, 1878)   -  Extreme south-eastern Thailand, Cambodia and southern Indochina.
  • aurigaster (Vieillot, 1818)   -  Java; Bali (possibly introduced).



References
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