>Bleda canicapillus (Grey-headed Bristlebill)

Grey-headed Bristlebill

Grey-headed Bristlebill
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Bleda
Species:	B. canicapillus
Binomial name
Bleda canicapillus (Hartlaub, 1854)
Synonyms
Bleda canicapilla

The Grey-headed Bristlebill (Bleda canicapillus) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Benin, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical swamps.

>Bleda notatus (Yellow-lored Bristlebill)

Yellow-lored Bristlebill

Yellow-lored Bristlebill
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Bleda
Species:	B. notatus
Binomial name
Bleda notatus (Cassin, 1857)
Synonyms
Bleda notata

The Yellow-lored Bristlebill or Lesser Bristlebill (Bleda notatus) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It was formerly lumped with the Green-tailed Bristlebill (Bleda eximius) but is now often considered to be a separate species.

The western form B. n. notatus is found in northern Angola, Cameroon, south-west Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, western Democratic Republic of the Congo,Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and south-east Nigeria. Further east, B. n. ugandae occurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, north-west Tanzania and Uganda. It may be a separate species, the Yellow-eyed Bristlebill (Bleda ugandae).

>Bleda eximius (Green-tailed Bristlebill)

Green-tailed Bristlebill

Green-tailed Bristlebill
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Bleda
Species:	B. eximius
Binomial name
Bleda eximius (Hartlaub, 1855)
Synonyms
Bleda eximia

The Green-tailed Bristlebill (Bleda eximius) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in West Africa in south-west Ghana, southern Ivory Coast, Liberia, southern Guinea and southern Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

>Bleda syndactylus (Red-tailed Bristlebill)

Red-tailed Bristlebill

Red-tailed Bristlebill
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Bleda
Species:	B. syndactylus
Binomial name
Bleda syndactylus (Swainson, 1837)
Synonyms
Bleda syndactyla

The Red-tailed Bristlebill or Common Bristlebill (Bleda syndactylus) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania,Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland and montane forests and tropical moist shrubland.

>>Genus Bleda

Bristlebill

Bristlebills
Grey-headed Bristlebill (Bleda canicapillus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Bleda Bonaparte, 1857
Species
3-5, see text

The bristlebills are a genus of passerine birds belonging to the genus Bleda in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae. They are found in the understorey of forests in West and Central Africa. They forage for insects at or near ground-level, often near water. They will follow driver ant swarms to catch prey items fleeing from the ants and they frequently join mixed-species feeding flocks.

They are 18–23 cm long with fairly long, stout bills. The upperparts are mainly green-brown while the underparts are yellow. The birds have whistling songs.

The nest is made of leaves or sticks and built in a shrub or small tree. Two eggs are laid.

Species list

• Red-tailed Bristlebill, Bleda syndactylus
• Green-tailed Bristlebill, Bleda eximius
• Yellow-lored Bristlebill, Bleda notatus
  • Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Bleda (notatus) ugandae
• Grey-headed Bristlebill, Bleda canicapillus