Iole crypta
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The buff-vented bulbul (Iole crypta) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in south-eastern Myanmar, south-western Thailand, on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
It is threatened by habitat loss. The former scientific name, Iole olivacea Blyth, 1844, has now been ruled as permanently invalid by the IOC. Some authorities have classified the buff-vented bulbul in the genera Hypsipetes and Microscelis. Formerly, Charlotte's bulbul was considered as conspecific with the buff-vented bulbul until split by the IOC in 2017. Alternate names for the buff-vented bulbul include the crested olive bulbul, dull-brown bulbul and Finsch's olive bulbul. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Way Kambas National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Gunung Leuser National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Khao Luang National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Buff-vented Bulbul sighting in Kuala Lumpur on a given day, based on 152 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 80th most-seen of the 228 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January to August
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Buff-vented Bulbul in Kuala Lumpur on a given day, against under 5% in September to December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Buff-vented Bulbul sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kuala Lumpur, in our data
Kuala Lumpur is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Buff-vented Bulbul sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pycnonotidae
The closest relatives of the Buff-vented Bulbul that you can see in Kuala Lumpur (family Pycnonotidae, Bulbuls) are Yellow-vented Bulbul (about 80%), Red-eyed Bulbul (about 30%) and Olive-winged Bulbul (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Buff-vented Bulbul is recorded against all the birds logged in Kuala Lumpur (152 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
