Baumann's Olive Greenbul

Phyllastrephus baumanni

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestSmall · 27 g

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It has an olive-brown head and a gray face. Its eyes are brown. Its underparts are gray and its back is brown.

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When to see the Baumann's Olive Greenbul

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Baumann's Olive Greenbul

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Benin.

About the Baumann's Olive Greenbul

Baumann's olive greenbul is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in West Africa from Guinea and Sierra Leone to south-eastern Nigeria. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna. Although little known, new research has shown it to be plentiful and widespread. Consequently, it is listed as a species of Least Concern by the IUCN. Alternate names for Baumann's olive greenbul include Baumann's bulbul, Baumann's greenbul and olive greenbul.

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