Hairy-backed Bulbul

Tricholestes criniger

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestSmall · 17 g

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The hairy-backed bulbul is a small (16–17 cm long, weigh 12–21 g), relatively quiet bulbul with a slightly rounded tail and strong rictal bristles. It is olive above and yellowish below, with key features including pale yellowish lores and a broad eye ring, a dark rufescent olive-brown cap and neck, olive-rufous uppertail-coverts and upperwings, a bright rufous-brown tail with creamy white tips, a creamy white chin and throat merging into a yellow breast, and hair-like filoplumes on the back (often concealed).

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When to see the Hairy-backed Bulbul

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Hairy-backed Bulbul

Regular range

The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Hairy-backed Bulbul

The hairy-backed bulbul is a songbird species in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is the sole species contained within the monotypic genus Tricholestes. It is found on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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