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The mainly olive-green bare-faced bulbul is distinctive in having a bare pink face with blueish skin around the eyes. The two specimens so far collected were around 20 cm in length and weighed 32-40 g. The breast and belly are fawn-grey, the uppersides olive and the throat is off-white. According to researchers, its call is a "dry bubbly tweet".
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When to see the Bare-faced Bulbul
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Bare-faced Bulbul
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Bare-faced Bulbul
The bare-faced bulbul is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It was newly described from central Laos in 2009. It is one of the very few Asian songbirds with a bald (featherless) face and is the first new species of bulbul to be described from Asia in almost a century.
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Easily confused with
Pale-olive GreenbulPhyllastrephus fulviventrisThe pale-olive greenbul, or pale-olive bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
Nicobar BulbulHypsipetes nicobariensisThe Nicobar bulbul is a rather drab, nondescript species of about 20 cm in length and without a crest.
Camiguin BulbulHypsipetes catarmanensisIt is described as a large, brown bulbul with a yellowish tint.
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