The ashy bulbul (''Hemixos flavala'') 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 5,00 ...

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, tropic ...

family, Pycnonotidae. It is found on the

Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divided between Bangladesh, India, and Pakista ...

and in Southeast Asia. Its natural

habitat In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ...

s are

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Description TSMF is generally found in large ...

and subtropical or tropical moist

montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is ...

Taxonomy and systematics

Formerly, some authorities classified the ashy bulbul in the genera ''

Hypsipetes __NOTOC__ ''Hypsipetes'' is a genus of bulbuls, songbirds in the family Pycnonotidae. Most of its species occur in tropical forests around the Indian Ocean. But while the genus is quite diverse in the Madagascar region at the western end of its r ...

'' and ''

Microscelis ''Microscelis'' is a former genus of bulbuls described by George Robert Gray in 1840. The following species were classified within the genus ''Microscelis'' but are now assigned to ''Iole'', ''Hemixos'' or '' Hypsipetes'': * Olive bulbul (as ...

''.

Subspecies

Five subspecies are currently recognized: * ''H. f. flavala'' - Blyth, 1845: Found in the eastern Himalayas, north-eastern Bangladesh, north-western Myanmar and southern China * ''H. f. hildebrandi'' - Hume, 1874: Found in eastern Myanmar and north-western Thailand * ''H. f. davisoni'' - Hume, 1877: Found in south-eastern Myanmar and south-western Thailand * ''H. f. bourdellei'' - Delacour, 1926: Found in southern China, eastern Thailand, northern and central Laos * ''H. f. remotus'' - ( Deignan, 1957): Found in southern Indochina

Gallery

File:Ashy Bulbul from bird photography tour to Eaglenest wildlife sanctuary.jpg, ''H. f. flavala'' from

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References

ashy bulbul The ashy bulbul (''Hemixos flavala'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical ...

Birds of North India Birds of Nepal Birds of Eastern Himalaya Birds of Indochina

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