Yellow-throated Bulbul

Pycnonotus xantholaemus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebratesForestCavity nestSmall · 33 g

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This uncrested species of bulbul is olive grey above with a yellow throat, undertail coverts and tail tips. The head is plain while the breast and belly have a grey wash. The closest resembling species is the white-browed bulbul but this has a supercilium and lacks the yellow throat. Males and females are similar in plumage.

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When to see the Yellow-throated Bulbul

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-throated Bulbul

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Yellow-throated Bulbul

The yellow-throated bulbul is a species of songbird in the bulbul family of passerine birds. The species is endemic to southern peninsular India. They are found on scrub habitats on steep, rocky hills many of which are threatened by granite quarrying. It is confusable only with the white-browed bulbul with which its range overlaps but is distinctively yellow on the head and throat apart from the yellow vent. The calls of this species are very similar to that of the white-browed bulbul.

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