#1444 · 🐦 birds

Brown-eared Bulbul

🇳🇱 Bruinoorbuulbuul ·Hypsipetes amaurotis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The brown-eared bulbul ( Hypsipetes amaurotis ) is a medium-sized bulbul native to eastern Asia. It is extremely common within the northern parts of its range and is a familiar bird throughout Japan and Korea, but in Taiwan is rare and limited to Orchid Island.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 19,836iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
19,836 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1830 (196 years ago).