Dark-capped Bulbul (Pycnonotus tricolor)

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Eastern Cameroon east to southern Sudan, western and central Kenya and south to Angola, north-western Botswana and northern and western Zambia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A harsh 'kwit, kwit, kwit', alarm call. Song is a liquid 'sweet sweet sweet-potato'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (352)...)

Dark-capped Bulbul (Pycnonotus tricolor) [XC593224]
by isaac kilusu from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (alarm call)

Dark-capped Bulbul (Pycnonotus tricolor) [XC442044]
by Paul Driver from uMhlathuze Municipality (near Richards Bay), (South) Uthungulu DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Not recognised as a species by BirdLife International. Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus), Somali Bulbul (Pycnonotus somaliensis), Dodson's Bulbul (Pycnonotus dodsoni) and Dark-capped Bulbul (Pycnonotus tricolor) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Pycnonotus barbatus following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

spurius Reichenow, 1905 - Southern Ethiopia (southern Bale south to northern Sidamo-Borama). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus).
layardi Gurney Sr, 1879 - South-eastern Kenya (Taveta) and eastern Tanzania (including Zanzibar) south to eastern and southern Zambia, north-eastern Botswana and eastern South Africa. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus).
tricolor (Hartlaub, 1862) - Central, eastern, south-eastern. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus).

References
See References.

Files:

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