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Olive-winged Bulbul
Pycnonotus plumosus · Family Pycnonotidae
Pycnonotus plumosus
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 32,671
- Countries and territories with records
- 8

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.