The joyful greenbul (''Chlorocichla laetissima'') or joyful bulbul, 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 family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical As ...

family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in east-central Africa. Its natural

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s are boreal

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s and subtropical or tropical moist

montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...

Taxonomy and systematics

The joyful greenbul was originally described in the genus '' Andropadus'' and later re-classified within ''Chlorocichla''.

Subspecies

Two

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of the joyful greenbul are recognized: * ''C. l. laetissima'' - ( Sharpe, 1899): Found from southern Sudan to south-western Kenya and north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo * ''C. l. schoutedeni'' -

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, 1954: Found in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia

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joyful greenbul The joyful greenbul (''Chlorocichla laetissima'') or joyful bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in east-central Africa. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane ...

Birds of Central Africa Birds of East Africa

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