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Red-vented Bulbul
Pycnonotus cafer · Family Pycnonotidae
Pycnonotus cafer
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,429,600
- Countries and territories with records
- 44
About this species
This species has 1,429,600 occurrence records from 44 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (83.2%), Sri Lanka (4.6%), the United States (3.9%), Nepal (2.3%) and the United Arab Emirates (1.6%); together they account for 95.6% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.9% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pycnonotus cafer combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet cafer. The Warbla app catalog lists 28 species of the genus Pycnonotus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pycnonotus jocosus, Pycnonotus sinensis and Pycnonotus barbatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 140 species of the family Pycnonotidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 26 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.