Alophoixus bres
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The brown-cheeked bulbul (Alophoixus bres) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found on Java and Bali. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
It eats insects: caterpillars, butterflies, moths, beetle larvae, cicadas, crickets, grasshoppers, and tephritid fruit flies. It also eats fruit: mangir, lempeni, and senggani. They make cup-shaped nests out of plant fragments, and camouflage them with moss and lichen. They nest in majegau, melinjo, cacao, and mahogany trees.
The brown-cheeked bulbul was originally described in the genus Lanius and later classified in Criniger until moved to the genus Alophoixus in 2009. Alternate names for the brown-cheeked bulbul include the grey-cheeked bulbul, olive white-headed bulbul and scrub bulbul. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Sepilok | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 3 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea World Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-cheeked Bulbul sighting in Sepilok on a given day, based on 22 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 75th most-seen of the 242 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–May and October–November
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-cheeked Bulbul in Sepilok on a given day, against under 5% in July, September and December–March, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-cheeked 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.
2nd of 3
Of the 3 parks where we can rate Brown-cheeked Bulbul sightings, Sepilok ranks 2nd at about 20%. The best odds are in Taman Negara National Park (Malaysia, about 40%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-cheeked Bulbul is recorded against all the birds logged in Sepilok (22 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.
