Red-whiskered bulbul
Pycnonotus jocosus
Identification Tips:
- Length: 7 inches
- Slender bill
- Red ear patch and undertail coverts
- Black head with crest
- Dark upperparts
- White underparts
- Long tail
- Sexes similar
- Introduced to southern Florida
Similar species:
The crest, black and white plumage and red undertail coverts are quite
distinctive.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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