Saturday, August 4, 2012

>Hypsipetes thompsoni (White-headed Bulbul)

White-headed Bulbul




White-headed Bulbul
Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Pycnonotidae
Genus:Hypsipetes
Vigors, 1831
Species:H. thompsoni
Binomial name
Hypsipetes thompsoni
(Bingham, 1900)
Synonyms
Cerasophila thompsoni Bingham, 1900
The White-headed Bulbul (Hypsipetes thompsoni) is a songbird species in the bulbul family(Pycnonotidae). It is the sometimes separated in a monotypic genus Cerasophila (literally meaning "cherry-lover").
It is found in Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

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