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Sombre Greenbul

Andropadus importunus · Family Pycnonotidae

Andropadus importunus

Family Pycnonotidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Pycnonotidae
GBIF occurrence records
200,730
Countries and territories with records
11
Sombre Greenbul
Andropadus_importunus_3.jpg: Brian Ralphs from Wheaton, IL, USA derivative work: Berichard (talk) · Andropadus importunus 1.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Andropadus_importunus_3.jpg: Brian Ralphs from Wheaton, IL, · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Anne Ndung'u · Andropadus_importunus_-_Sombre_Greenbul_XC405116.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anne Ndung'u · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 200,730 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (87.3%), Kenya (5.5%), Mozambique (2.3%), Eswatini (2%) and Tanzania (1.5%); together they account for 98.6% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.44% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Andropadus importunus combines the genus name Andropadus with the species epithet importunus. It is the only species of the genus Andropadus in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 140 species of the family Pycnonotidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 3.6 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Pycnonotidae

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