Criniger barbatus
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~80%
The western bearded greenbul (Criniger barbatus) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in West Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The western bearded greenbul was formally described and illustrated in 1821 by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck from a specimen collected in Sierra Leone. He coined the binomial name Trichophorus barbatus. Some authorities formerly considered the eastern bearded greenbul as conspecific with this species.
Two subspecies are recognized: Criniger barbatus barbatus (Temminck, 1821) – Found from Sierra Leone to Benin Criniger barbatus ansorgeanus Hartert, E, 1907 – Found in southern Nigeria Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taï National Park | 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Bearded Bulbul sighting in Taï National Park on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 23rd most-seen of the 74 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bearded Bulbul sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Taï National Park, in our data
Taï National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Bearded Bulbul sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bearded Bulbul is recorded against all the birds logged in Taï National Park (10 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.
