The Cachar bulbul (''Iole cacharensis'') is a species of
songbird
A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin ''oscen'', "songbird". The Passeriformes contains 500 ...
in 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, Pycnonotidae.
It is found in north-eastern India and south-eastern Bangladesh. The Cachar bulbul was considered as a subspecies of the
olive bulbul
The olive bulbul (''Iole viridescens'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
It is found from southern Myanmar to south-western Thailand and the Malay Peninsula.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowla ...
until it was split off and re-classified as a separate species by the
IOC
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
in 2017.
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Cachar bulbul
The Cachar bulbul (''Iole cacharensis'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul
The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The ...
Birds of Bangladesh
Birds of Northeast India
Cachar bulbul
The Cachar bulbul (''Iole cacharensis'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul
The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The ...
Cachar bulbul
The Cachar bulbul (''Iole cacharensis'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul
The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The ...
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