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Yellow-browed Bulbul (Acritillas indica)

Yellow-browed Bulbul
Photo: Thinrhino via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Yellow-browed Bulbul

The yellow-browed bulbul (Acritillas indica), or golden-browed bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in the forests of southern India and Sri Lanka. The yellow-browed bulbul is mainly yellow on the underside and olive above with a distinct yellow brow. They are easily located by their loud calls but tend to skulk within foliage below the forest canopy. While its taxonomic classification has changed over time, it is currently the sole species within the monotypic genus Acritillas, which is closely related to Hemixos.

Source: Yellow-browed bulbul on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Yellow-browed Bulbul. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (1:15) via xeno-canto.org/756206, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in India, Sri Lanka · xeno-canto lists 67 recordings for this species in total.

Other birds in this region

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.