Reunion Bulbul
Hypsipetes borbonicus(Pennant, T, 1781)
English (US) Reunion Bulbul
The Reunion Bulbul (Hypsipetes borbonicus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: evergreen forest of Réunion (western Mascarene Islands)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hypsipetes borbonicus
- Family
- Pycnonotidae (Bulbuls)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Reunion Bulbul
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- [Turdus] Borbonicus
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
- Type locality
- Isle of Bourbon = La Reunion, ex Brisson. Based on the Merula Borbonica of Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 2, p. 293, pi. 24, fig. 3.
- Original description
- Indische Zoologie oder systematischer Beschreibungen seltener und unbekannter Thiere aus Indien (etc.) p.41
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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