Chlorocichla simplex
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The simple greenbul (Chlorocichla simplex) or simple leaflove, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is widespread throughout the African tropical rainforest. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
The simple greenbul was originally described in the genus Trichophorus (a synonym for Criniger) and then classified within Pyrrhurus before being moved to the genus Chlorocichla. Media related to Chlorocichla simplex at Wikimedia Commons
Image at Animal Diversity Web
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakum National Park | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazzaville | 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo | |
| 2 | Freetown | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone | |
| 3 | Lagos | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 4 | Accra | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Simple Greenbul sighting in Kakum National Park on a given day, based on 115 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 87th most-seen of the 250 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, April–May and July–September
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Simple Greenbul in Kakum National Park on a given day, against about 10% in February, the lowest month.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Simple Greenbul sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kakum National Park, in our data
Kakum National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Simple Greenbul sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pycnonotidae
The closest relatives of the Simple Greenbul that you can see in Kakum National Park (family Pycnonotidae, Bulbuls) are Common Bulbul (about 50%), Slender-billed Greenbul (about 50%) and Little Greenbul (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Simple Greenbul is recorded against all the birds logged in Kakum National Park (115 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
