The yellow-whiskered greenbul or yellow-whiskered bulbul (''Eurillas latirostris'') is a species of the

bulbul The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical As ...

family of passerine birds. It is found in western and central Africa. Its natural habitats are

subtropical or tropical dry forest The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive ...

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...

, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Taxonomy and systematics

The yellow-whiskered greenbul was originally described in the genus '' Andropadus'' and was re-classified to the genus ''Eurillas'' in 2010. Alternatively, some authorities classify the yellow-whiskered greenbul in the genus '' Pycnonotus''.

Subspecies

Three

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are recognized: * ''E. l. australis'' - (

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, 1941): Found on the Ufipa Plateau (Tanzania) * Upper Guinea yellow-whiskered greenbul (''E. l. congener'') - (

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, 1897): Found from Senegal to south-western Nigeria * Uganda yellow-whiskered greenbul (''E. l. latirostris'') - ( Strickland, 1844): Nominate species is also named the Kilimanjaro sombre greenbul. Found from south-eastern Nigeria to southern Sudan, western Kenya, western Tanzania, south-central Democratic Republic of Congo and northern Angola

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yellow-whiskered greenbul The yellow-whiskered greenbul or yellow-whiskered bulbul (''Eurillas latirostris'') is a species of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is found in western and central Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, ...

Birds of the Gulf of Guinea Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa

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