Mountain Bulbul

The mountain bulbul is a medium-sized forest bulbul with olive-brown upperparts, a greyer head, warm ear-coverts and pale underparts marked by soft streaking. Its bill is slender and slightly curved, and the tail is moderately long. Plumage differences among the several geographic forms can make colour intensity variable, so habitat, voice and the combination of a plain head with streaked underparts are useful field clues (Wikipedia, general species account).

It ranges from the Himalayas and northeastern India through southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. Broadleaved evergreen forest between roughly 800 and 2,590 m is its characteristic habitat, making it primarily a hill and mountain species. Birds generally forage in the middle and upper forest levels, moving between fruiting trees and foliage in pairs or small groups. The species' association with intact, elevated evergreen woodland separates it ecologically from many common lowland and garden bulbuls (Wikipedia, general species account).