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Light-vented Bulbul
Pycnonotus sinensis · Family Pycnonotidae
Pycnonotus sinensis
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 905,501
- Countries and territories with records
- 16
About this species
This species has 905,501 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (82.7%), China (11.2%) and Hong Kong (4.6%); together they account for 98.5% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 3.6% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pycnonotus sinensis combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet sinensis. 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 barbatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 140 species of the family Pycnonotidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 16.4 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.