Alternative name: Bearded Bulbul
- Criniger barbatus
Identification
22 cm
- Yellow throat (feathers often puffed out)
- Heavy bill
Distribution
Western Africa found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria
Taxonomy
Subspecies
- C. b. barbatus
- Sierra Leone to Togo
- C. b. ansorgeanus:
- Southern Nigeria (lower Niger River delta)
Habitat
A variety of lowland forest and woodland types including swamp and gallery forests, evergreen and deciduous.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of insects, but they also eat seeds and berries.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2015)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Western Bearded Greenbul. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Western_Bearded_Greenbul
