Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Pycnonotidae > Pycnonotus > Pycnonotus leucotisPycnonotus leucotis (White-eared Bulbul)The white-eared bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis) is a member of the bulbul family. It is found in Kuwait, Bahrain, mid and southern Iraq, southern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, north-western India, in parts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and on the Arabian peninsula. The species was earlier considered a conspecific of Pycnonotus leucogenys. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.84783 EDGE Score: 2.06024 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 30 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 3 | | Clutches / Year [1] | 3 | | Incubation [3] | 13 days |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
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Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands |
Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt , Iraq, Jordan, Syria |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Baluchistan xeric woodlands |
Pakistan, Afghanistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves |
India, Pakistan |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Indus Valley desert |
Pakistan |
Indo-Malayan |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands |
Iran |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Malabar Coast moist forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mesopotamian shrub desert |
Iraq, Syria, Jordan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Northwestern thorn scrub forests |
India, Pakistan |
Indo-Malayan |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert |
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert |
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert |
Iran, Iraq, Pakistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sulaiman Range alpine meadows |
Afghanistan, Pakistan |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Thar desert |
India, Pakistan |
Indo-Malayan |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh |
Iran, Iraq |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Zagros Mountains forest steppe |
Iran |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bahu Kalat (Gandu) Protected Area |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A3, A4i, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Dez river marshes and plains |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Geno |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A3 |
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Hamoun-i Sabari and Hamoun-i Hirmand |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Registan desert |
Afghanistan |
A1, A3 |
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Shaumari |
Jordan |
A3, A4i, B1i, B2 |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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