Red-vented Bulbul

Pycnonotus car

Beak

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Feet

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Crest

Has a crest

Widespread resident. Has short-crested black head, white rump, white - tipped black tail, and redve nt. White rump helps separate from other bulbuls in flight. Juvenile has browner head, rufous edges to flight feathers. buffish cast to white rump, and lacks white tips to tail. Considerable subspecies variation, mainly in extent to which black of head reaches onto mantle and breast and in prominence of whitish fringes to feathers of mantle and breast. In NW of range, frequently hybridises with White-eared and Himalayan. Bold, tame and quarrelsome. Keeps in pairs or in small loose flocks. Open deciduous forest, secondary growth, gardens and light scrub.