page_title: List of birds of Seychelles
section_title: Bulbuls
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Seychelles / Bulbuls
caption_attribution_description: Seychelles Bulbul (Hypsipetes crassirostris) Taken in Jan 2005 at Vallée de Mai on Praslin Island, Seychelles By Tanuki77.
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded in the Seychelles. It includes a total of 238 species. However, a total of 278 species have been accepted by Seychelles Bird Records Committee as recorded in Seychelles up to 1 January 2020. This total includes 277 species per the The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World plus yellow-billed kite, currently treated by Clements as a subspecies of black kite, which has also been recorded in Seychelles. Fourteen extant species are endemic. Ten have been introduced by humans although the Madagascar fody is possibly native. Of these 139 are rare or accidental. Seven species listed are extirpated in the Seychelles. Sixteen species are globally threatened.
  This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for the Seychelles.
  The following tags have been used to highlight several categories.
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Pycnonotidae
  Bulbuls are medium-sized songbirds. Some are colourful with yellow, red or orange vents, cheeks, throats or supercilia, but most are drab, with uniform olive-brown to black plumage. Some species have distinct crests. There are 130 species worldwide and 3 species which occur in the Seychelles. Red-whiskered bulbul, introduced in 1970s, occurred only at Assumption and was eradicated from there in 2014 to maintain introduced bird-free status of  nearby Aldabra (birds, discovered at Aldabra were culled in 2013 before they established population). Its current status in Seychelles is extirpated (locally extinct).
  Red-whiskered bulbul, Pycnonotus jocosus (I, Ex)
  Madagascar bulbul, Hypsipetes madagascariensis
  Seychelles bulbul, Hypsipetes crassirostris (E)
caption: The Seychelles bulbul is common across the Seychelles.
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