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Bulbul
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Main features: Small (20cm); slight crest; white face;
yellow under tail coverts.
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Adult: Olive brown crown, nape, underparts; white side
of head, eyebrow, throat, belly; lores black; breast
whitish streaked brown; black bill, feet, eyes. No white
on tail.
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Genders look alike
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Any of about 119 species of birds of the family Pycnonotidae (order
Passeriformes) of Africa and Asia, including some called greenbuls
and brownbuls. Members range in size from 14 to 28 cm (5.5 to 11 inches)
long. They are active, noisy, plain-coloured birds that sometimes
damage orchards. Representative of the 47 species of the genus Pycnonotus
is the African bulbul. The Red-whiskered Bulbul measures 20cm - 22cm,
and is not easily mistaken for any other species of bird in Australia.
It has a pointed black crest, white cheeks, brown back, reddish under
tail coverts and a long white-tipped tail. The red whisker mark, from
which it gets its name, is located below the eye, but is not always
easy to see. Both male and female birds are similar in plumage, while
young birds are duller with a greyish-black crown. Red-whiskered Bulbuls
are not timid around humans, perching prominently on the top of bushes
or on power lines. The call, a characteristic descending musical whistle,
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| Migrating birds stay on track
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Part
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March
3, 2006