White-Cheeked Bulbul - Pycnonotus leucogenys
When I got out to the Gulf several birds were missing. I couldn't see any tits or starlings. Day to day birds were replaced. Bulbuls seem to fill a niche as a garden bird and they remind me of great tits. They are far braver so more like sparrows. In every hotel I have stayed in they will forage at tables.
This is a White-Cheeked Bulbul which seems to be the most widespread in the UAE. There are 130 species of Bulbul spread throughouut Asia and Africa. So 1 per cent of the worlds birds are Bulbuls.
One Bulbul that is a Middle Eastern specialist is the Hypocolius and that will be a special expedition one day to one of the few sites they can be found in the UAE.
White-Cheeked Bulbul - Pycnonotus leucogenys
Sri Baniyas - UAE
February 2012
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