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Styan's Bulbul
Pycnonotus taivanus · Family Pycnonotidae
Pycnonotus taivanus
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 95,303
- Countries and territories with records
- 3

About this species
This species has 95,303 occurrence records from 3 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Taiwan accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.45% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pycnonotus taivanus combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet taivanus. 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 19th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 1.7 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.