Common Bulbul

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pycnonotidae

Genus

Pycnonotus

eBird Code

combul2

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Pycnonotus barbatus arsinoe

  Egypt (Nile Valley), eastern Chad, Sudan, and northern South Sudan

• Pycnonotus barbatus barbatus

  Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia

• Pycnonotus barbatus dodsoni

  southern Somalia and adjacent Ethiopia to northern Kenya

• Pycnonotus barbatus gabonensis

  central Nigeria and central Cameroon to Gabon and southern Congo

• Pycnonotus barbatus inornatus

  Senegal to Ghana, northern Niger, northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, and western Chad

• Pycnonotus barbatus layardi

  southeastern Kenya to eastern Tanzania, Zambia, northeastern Botswana, and South Africa

• Pycnonotus barbatus schoanus

  Eritrea, Ethiopia and southeastern South Sudan

• Pycnonotus barbatus somaliensis

  Djibouti to northwestern Somalia and southeastern Ethiopia

• Pycnonotus barbatus spurius

  southern Ethiopia (southern Bale to northern Sidamo-Borama)

• Pycnonotus barbatus tricolor

  eastern Cameroon eastward to South Sudan and central Kenya, southward to northern Namibia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northwestern Botswana, and northern and western Zambia