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greenbul en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of various birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.
   • The commonest of the dull olive-green greenbuls, the Sombre Greenbul is most easily distinguished by its white eye; the race to the northeast is much yellower below and could readily be mistaken for a Yellow-bellied Greenbul were it not for its white eye. 2006, Ian Sinclair, Ian Davidson, Sasol Southern African Birds: A Photographic Guide, page 198:
   • Birdwatchers based in Africa's savanna belt will generally want to focus more on forest birds, but mostly on such common and iconic species as great blue turaco or black-and-white casqued hornbill rather than on glimpsing a selection of more localised but duller forest greenbuls. 2013, Philip Briggs, Andrew Roberts, Uganda, 7th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 56:
   • We investigated the differences in environmental selection pressures between ecotone and rainforest that could have driven the song divergence in little greenbuls, in particular the divergence in Fmin (Slabbekoorn & Smith 2002b). 2005, T. B. Smith et al., “Putting process on the map”, in Andrew Purvis, John L. Gittleman, Thomas Brooks, editors, Conservation Biology 8: Phylogeny and Conservation, page 178:

Forms

Deriveds

Sjöstedt's greenbul · honeyguide greenbul

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