Visayan Bulbul

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Visayan Bulbul
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pycnonotidae
Genus: Hypsipetes
Species: H. guimarasensis
Binomial name
Hypsipetes guimarasensis
(Steere, 1890)

The Visayan Bulbul (Hypsipetes guimarasensis) is a songbird species in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae).

It is endemic to the western Visayas in the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It was previously considered a subspecies of the Philippine Bulbul.

Footnotes

    References

    • Oliveros, C.H., and R.G. Moyle. 2010. Origin and diversification of Philippine bulbuls. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 822–832.
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