Common Bulbul
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Common Bulbul

Pycnonotus barbatus

Overview

Kruger National Park, iSimangaliso Wetland Park and uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park are among the 23 atlas places where the Common Bulbul is recorded. Its records concentrate most heavily in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The atlas holds about 379,000 open records of this bird from 19 countries, and the map reflects where these records gather.

Recorded seasons for the Common Bulbul differ by region, and each park page shows the particular months it is documented there.

Records
378,899
Countries
19
Atlas places
23
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Common Bulbul as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 261902 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 27789 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Uganda
    25 km zone · high confidence · 23509 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zambia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 11094 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · high confidence · 9257 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mozambique
    25 km zone · high confidence · 8200 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 6235 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Rwanda
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5048 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Morocco
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4919 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ghana
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4538 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Common Bulbul