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Northern Brownbul (Phyllastrephus strepitans)

Northern Brownbul
Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Northern Brownbul

The northern brownbul (Phyllastrephus strepitans) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in eastern Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The northern brownbul was originally described in the genus Criniger. Alternate names include the East African scrub bulbul and northern brown bulbul.

Source: Northern brownbul on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Northern Brownbul. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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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 (1:21) via xeno-canto.org/1068324, licensed CC BY — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania · xeno-canto lists 44 recordings for this species in total.

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