The red-tailed greenbul (''Criniger calurus''), also known as the red-tailed bulbul, 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, native to the
African tropical rainforest.
Taxonomy and systematics
Alternate names for the red-tailed greenbul include the red-tailed bearded bulbul, red-tailed bulbul and thick-billed red-tailed greenbul.
Subspecies
Three subspecies are recognized. Additionally, the
white-bearded greenbul was also originally described as a subspecies of the red-tailed greenbul:
* Gold Coast red-tailed bulbul (''C. c. verreauxi'') -
Sharpe, 1871: Originally described as a separate species and alternatively named as the Sierra Leone red-tailed bulbul. Found from Senegal to south-western Nigeria
* ''C. c. calurus'' -
( Cassin, 1856): Found from southern Nigeria to western Democratic Republic of Congo
* ''C. c. emini'' -
Chapin, 1948: Found from north-eastern Angola and western Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda and western Tanzania
References
External links
Image at ADW
red-tailed greenbul
Birds of the Gulf of Guinea
Birds of the African tropical rainforest
red-tailed greenbul
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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