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Pycnonotus plumosus · Family Pycnonotidae

Pycnonotus plumosus

Family Pycnonotidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Pycnonotidae
GBIF occurrence records
32,671
Countries and territories with records
8
Olive-winged Bulbul
Lip Kee from Singapore, Republic of Singapore · Owb Pycnonotus plumosus 690V6039 - Flickr - Lip Kee.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lip Kee from Singapore, Republic of Singapore · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 32,671 occurrence records from 8 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Singapore (45.1%), Malaysia (40.5%), Thailand (6.8%) and Indonesia (5.9%); together they account for 98.3% of the total. In Singapore, this species accounts for 0.89% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Pycnonotus plumosus combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet plumosus. 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 29th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 59.3% of the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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