Charlotte's Bulbul

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)

Charlotte's Bulbul

Iole charlottae

黄臀灰胸鹎 (huáng-tún hēi-xiōng bēi)

    Malay : Merbah-Riang Borneo

    Japanese : カンムリオリアブヒヨ (kanmuri oriibu hiyo-dori)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 冠オリーブ鵯

    Taxonomy update for 2017

Buff-vented Bulbul has been split into two species. Under the new arrangement, Buff-vented Bulbul occurs in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka and Belitung, Anambas Islands, and Natuna, while
the form occurring in Borneo becomes a new endemic species
named Charlotte’s Bulbul. :

- Buff-vented Bulbul (Iole crypta)

- Charlotte's Bulbul (Iole charlottae)

 
    

    Updates & Corrections – August 2017 | Clements Checklist
    Buff-vented Bulbul has been listed as a monotypic species, Iole olivacea, since subspecies
    were introduced to the eBird/Clements Checklist (Clements Checklist fifth edition, 2000).
    The species name is charlottae (Dickinson and Christidis 2014), not olivacea, however,
    and the species should have been considered to be polytypic, with subspecies crypta and
    charlottae (Rand and Deignan 1960, Dickinson and Christidis 2014). Manawatthana et al.
    (2017) now demonstrate that crypta and charlottae each should be recognized as a
    separate species.

    After the split, the name Iole charlottae is applied to the Borneo species, Charlotte’s
    Bulbul (Iole charlottae) and the species of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and adjacent
    islands retains its English name, but uses a new scientific name: Buff-vented Bulbul
    (Iole crypta).

    Size : 20–20·5 cm; 20–28 g

    

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Monotypic. (Finsch, 1867, Borneo)
  – Borneo (including Banggi I).

Date : 17 September 2018
Location : Canopy Walk, Sepilok Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC), Sandakan, Sabah

Date : 17 September 2018
Location : Pitta Path, Sepilok Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC), Sandakan, Sabah