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Grey-olive Greenbul (Phyllastrephus cerviniventris)

Grey-olive Greenbul
Photo: William Stephens via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Grey-olive Greenbul

The grey-olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus cerviniventris), or grey-olive bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in eastern and south-central Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. Two subspecies are recognized: P. c. schoutedeni - Prigogine, 1969: Found from central Kenya to central Mozambique, Zambia and eastern Angola P. c. cerviniventris - Shelley, 1894: Found in Katanga (south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Source: Grey-olive greenbul on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Grey-olive Greenbul. 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.

Call (0:37) via xeno-canto.org/660233, 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 Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia · xeno-canto lists 44 recordings for this species in total.

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