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White-eared bulbul
Pycnonotus (leucogenys) leucotis
25.1665, 55.218
Field Notes
Description:
Perched on our mango tree in Dubai, UAE
Notes:
Quoted from "Birds of the Middle East" iPhone app:
"Easily told by black head and throat, and large white cheek-patch, often shows slight crest; undertail-coverts yellow, longish tail with noticeable white tip. Juvenile has browner head than adult. Rump can be pale, as in Red-vented Bulbul, with which hybridises readily, progeny having variable intermediate characteristics including indistinct cheek-patch, dark spotting on upper breast and orange undertail-coverts. Often makes flycatching sallies; gregarious. Voice Lively bubbling jumble of notes, with simple repetitive tune; more musical than Red-vented, too-tiddly-ooo; tweeooo- wee-ooo and longer bubbling variations doo-widdly-iddly-wick. Habitat Woodland, parks and gardens, urban and rural settings near human habitation. Note Native, but now widely introduced in Arabia; recorded Israel, Jordan. [Formerly White-cheeked Bulbul P. leucogenys"
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