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African Red-eyed Bulbul
Pycnonotus nigricans · Family Pycnonotidae
Pycnonotus nigricans
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 126,763
- Countries and territories with records
- 15
About this species
This species has 126,763 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (66.7%), Namibia (26.8%) and Botswana (5.2%); together they account for 98.7% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pycnonotus nigricans combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet nigricans. 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 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 2.3 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.