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Common Bulbul
Pycnonotus barbatus · Family Pycnonotidae
Pycnonotus barbatus
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 384,954
- Countries and territories with records
- 65
About this species
This species has 384,954 occurrence records from 65 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (26.3%), Kenya (14%), Uganda (9.6%), Tanzania (7.1%) and Morocco (6.1%); together they account for 63.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pycnonotus barbatus combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet barbatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 28 species of the genus Pycnonotus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pycnonotus cafer, Pycnonotus jocosus and Pycnonotus sinensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 140 species of the family Pycnonotidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 7 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.