Cinereous Bulbul

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)

Cinereous Bulbul

Hemixos cinereus

灰黑短脚鹎 (huī hēi duǎn jiǎo bēi )

    Malay : Merbah-Kelabu Biasa

    Japanese : キバネヒヨドリ [cinereus] (kibane hiyo-dori [cinereus])

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 灰色鵯

Taxonomy update for 2019

Ashy Bulbul (Hemixos flavala) is split, with Cinereous Bulbul (Hemixos cinereus) representing the birds of the southern Thai-Malay Peninsula (north to Surat Thani in Thailand), Sumatra, and Borneo, and the birds from the Himalaya to Indochina, including much of the rest of Thailand, retaining the name Ashy Bulbul (Hemixos flavala). Only in Thailand can you find both species and the ranges are well-separated in Thailand as well. :

- Ashy Bulbul (Hemixos flavala)
- Cinereous Bulbul (Hemixos cinereus)    

    Size : 20.5–21 cm; 27.2–35.2 g

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Monotypic. (Blyth, 1845, Melaka, Peninsular Malaysia)
  – S Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

Date : 25 May 2016

Location : Berjaya Hills, Daerah Bentong, Pahang

Date : 25 May 2016

Location : Berjaya Hills, Daerah Bentong, Pahang