Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus

Common Bulbul

Pycnonotus barbatus

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

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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

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.