Red-vented Bulbul

Pycnonotus cafer

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae)

Code 4

RVBU

Code 6

PYCCAF

ITIS

Breeding Location:

Bushes, shrubs, and thickets

Breeding Type:

Monogamous

Breeding Population:

Abundant

Egg Color:

Pale pink with red-brown blotches

Number of Eggs:

Incubation Days:

Egg Incubator:

Both sexes

Nest Material:

Dead leaves, twigs, rootlets, grasses, and cobwebs

Migration:

Nonmigratory

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General

Red-vented Bulbul: Popular caged bird, native from Pakistan to southwest China. Upperparts and breast are scaled brown to black. Shiny black head has a small crest. Buff belly, white rump and uppertail coverts, undertail coverts are red. Brown-black tail is white-tipped. Sexes are similar. Juveniles are mostly brown, wing coverts, some flight feathers, and tail feathers have buff tips. Belly, rump, and uppertail coverts are gray-white, undertail coverts are pink buff.

Range and Habitat

Red-vented Bulbul: A small flock was seen on O'ahu in 1966. Now numerous and found in many types of habitat throughout most of O'ahu. Prefers lower level residential, agricultural, and scrubland. Also resides in native forests.

Breeding and Nesting

Red-vented Bulbul: Two to five pale pink eggs marked with large, irregular red-brown blotches are laid in a cup-shaped nest constructed of twigs, rootlets, grasses and cobwebs. Eggs are incubated for 10-14 days by female or both parents. Chicks fledge after 12 days.

Foraging and Feeding

Red-vented Bulbul: Feeds primarily on fruits, flower petals, and nectar. Also forages for insects and spiders. May sit on an exposed branch to hawk winged insects, glean bark and leaves, and chase insects on the ground.

Vocalization

Red-vented Bulbul: Has two different songs, a whistled flutelike one and a short, repeated "wheet-wheet-ear". Alarm call is a single, sharp "PEEP" or repeated "peep-peep-peep".

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Undertail coverts

Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Belly

The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

Crest

Tufts of feathers on the head of the bird.

Flight feathers

Located on the wing, and collectively called remiges (singular, remex). The long stiff feathers are subdivided into two major groups based on the location and are called primaries and secondaries.

Rump

The area between the uppertail coverts and the back of the bird.

Wing coverts

The feathers that cover and protect the flight feathers.

Parts of a Standing bird

Head Feathers and Markings

Parts of a Flying bird

Field Guide to Birds of North America