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Black-crested Bulbul
Rubigula flaviventris · Family Pycnonotidae
Rubigula flaviventris
Family Pycnonotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 102,026
- Countries and territories with records
- 13

About this species
This species has 102,026 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Thailand (47.3%), India (27.2%), Malaysia (5.5%), Cambodia (5.1%) and Vietnam (4.6%); together they account for 89.8% of the total. In Thailand, this species accounts for 0.73% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Rubigula flaviventris combines the genus name Rubigula with the species epithet flaviventris. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Rubigula; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Rubigula gularis, Rubigula erythropthalmos and Rubigula melanictera.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 140 species of the family Pycnonotidae. This species ranks 18th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Pycnonotus cafer. Its record count is 1.9 times the family average (55,058). The family Pycnonotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.