Hypsipetes amaurotis
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The brown-eared bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis) is a medium-sized bulbul native to eastern Asia. It is extremely common within the northern parts of its range and can be found from southern Sakhalin to the northern Philippines.
The brown-eared bulbul was originally described in the genus Turdus. Later, some authorities placed it in the genus Ixos and then the genus Microscelis, before being re-classified to Hypsipetes in 2010. Alternate names for the brown-eared bulbul include the Asian brown-eared bulbul, chestnut-eared bulbul, and Eurasian brown-eared bulbul.
Found on southern Karafuto, Japan and South Korea Found on the Bonin... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikko National Park | 🇯🇵 Japan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ueno Zoo | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 2 | Ueno Zoological Gardens (West Garden) | 🇯🇵 Japan |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-eared Bulbul sighting in Nikko National Park on a given day, based on 231 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 14th most-seen of the 102 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April and October
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-eared Bulbul in Nikko National Park on a given day, against about 20% in March and July, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-eared Bulbul 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 Nikko National Park, in our data
Nikko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Brown-eared Bulbul sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Brown-eared Bulbul that you can see in Nikko National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Cinereous Tit (about 80%), Japanese Bush Warbler (about 70%) and Coal Tit (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-eared Bulbul is recorded against all the birds logged in Nikko National Park (231 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.
