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Red-whiskered Bulbul
Pycnonotus jocosus · Family Pycnonotidae
Pycnonotus jocosus
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 958,446
- Countries and territories with records
- 39
About this species
This species has 958,446 occurrence records from 39 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (74.6%), Australia (7.7%), the United States (6.3%), Hong Kong (5.5%) and China (1.8%); together they account for 95.8% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pycnonotus jocosus combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet jocosus. 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 sinensis and Pycnonotus barbatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 140 species of the family Pycnonotidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 17.4 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.