White-spectacled Bulbul

About this species

This species has 211,448 occurrence records from 29 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (74.3%), Türkiye (6.9%), Palestine (5.4%), the United Arab Emirates (4%) and Oman (3.6%); together they account for 94.3% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 2.4% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Pycnonotus xanthopygos combines the genus name Pycnonotus with the species epithet xanthopygos. 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 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 3.8 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Pycnonotidae

• Red-vented Bulbul
• Red-whiskered Bulbul
• Light-vented Bulbul
• Common Bulbul
• Yellow-vented bulbul

Credits & data sources

• Wikidata
• GBIF.org