Terrestrial brownbul

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Terrestrial brownbul

Ngwenya, Eswatini
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Phyllastrephus
Species:	P. terrestris
Binomial name
*Phyllastrephus terrestris* Swainson, 1837

Synonyms
Phyllastrephus capensis

The terrestrial brownbul (Phyllastrephus terrestris) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in eastern and south-eastern Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Taxonomy and systematics

Alternate names for the terrestrial brownbul include the bristle-necked brownbul, brownbul, scrub bulbul and terrestrial bulbul.

Four subspecies are recognized:^[2]

Nyasa terrestrial brownbul (P. t. suahelicus) - Reichenow, 1904: Found from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique
P. t. intermedius - Gunning & Roberts, 1911: Found in southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique & adjacent eastern South Africa
P. t. rhodesiae - Roberts, 1917: Found from south-western Angola, Zambia, south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and south-western Tanzania to northern Botswana, northern Zimbabwe and north-eastern Mozambique
P. t. terrestris - Swainson, 1837: Found in eastern and southern South Africa

^ BirdLife International (2016). "Phyllastrephus terrestris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22712905A94353930. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22712905A94353930.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ "Bulbuls « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.

Taxon identifiers
Phyllastrephus terrestris	Wikidata: Q909198 Wikispecies: Phyllastrephus terrestris ADW: Phyllastrephus_terrestris Avibase: 07FD1D4CB385D77F BirdLife: 22712905 BOW: terbro1 CoL: 4H4VF eBird: terbro1 GBIF: 2486094 iNaturalist: 14563 IRMNG: 11162268 ITIS: 562082 IUCN: 22712905 NCBI: 374626 Observation.org: 76823 Open Tree of Life: 753179 Xeno-canto: Phyllastrephus-terrestris

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