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Black bulbul
Hypsipetes leucocephalus · Family Pycnonotidae
Hypsipetes leucocephalus
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 459,716
- Countries and territories with records
- 20
About this species
This species has 459,716 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (77.5%), India (12.8%), China (3%), Bhutan (1.8%) and Nepal (1.5%); together they account for 96.6% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 1.7% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hypsipetes leucocephalus combines the genus name Hypsipetes with the species epithet leucocephalus. The Warbla app catalog lists 20 species of the genus Hypsipetes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Hypsipetes amaurotis, Hypsipetes ganeesa and Hypsipetes philippinus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 140 species of the family Pycnonotidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 8.3 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.