Buff-vented Bulbul
Iole crypta
Dull brown bulbul with a long slender bill and pale gray eyes. Gray-eyed Bulbul is very similar but has darker, buffier underparts and is more warmly-colored overall; ironically, Gray-eyed Bulbul’s buffy rump is brighter. Olive Bulbuls are dark-eyed and darker overall, with little to no contrast between upper- and underparts. Inhabits forest and forest edge from lowlands up into the foothills. Gives sharp, high “whit” and “cher-wit” calls.
Taxonomy
The former scientific name, Iole olivacea Blyth, 1844, has now been ruled as permanently invalid by the IOC. Some authorities have classified the buff-vented bulbul in the genera Hypsipetes and Microscelis. Formerly, Charlotte's bulbul was considered as conspecific with the buff-vented bulbul until split by the IOC in 2017. Alternate names for the buff-vented bulbul include the crested olive bulbul, dull-brown bulbul and Finsch's olive bulbul.
- Scientific name
- Iole crypta
- Authority
- Oberholser, 1918
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- Genus
- Iole
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