Bulbuls

Common Bulbul

Pycnonotus barbatus

The Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus) is a 32 g woodland bird that eats mostly fruit. It stays put all year.

Family

Bulbuls

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

32 g

Habitat

Woodland

Diet

Fruit and nectar

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

45

Recorded in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Gambia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Senegal, Botswana, Mozambique, Egypt, Spain, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, eSwatini, Benin, Gabon, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Republic of the Congo, Algeria, Tunisia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Togo, Djibouti, Somalia, Eq. Guinea, Sudan, Mali, Chad, Central African Rep., Burundi, S. Sudan, Niger.

Where to see it: Mills Center (Liberia); Tower Hill, Liberia, West Africa (Liberia); Ouaga 2000 (Burkina Faso); Libreville · Résidence de France (Gabon); Holy Trinity Peace Village (Kuron) (South Sudan).

Photo: (c) Shaun Swanepoel, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist