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Pycnonotus cafer
The Red-vented Bulbul is easily identified by its short crest giving the head a squarish appearance. The body is dark brown with a scaly pattern while the head is darker or black. The rump is white while the vent is red. The black tail is tipped in white. The Himalayan races have a more prominent crest and are more streaked on the underside. The Race intermedius of the Western Himalayas has a black hood extending to the mid-breast. Population bengalensis of Central and Eastern Himalayas and the Gangetic plain has a dark hood, lacks the scale like pattern on the underside and instead has dark streaks on the paler lower belly. Race stanfordi of the South Assam hills is similar to intermedius. The desert race humayuni has a paler brown mantle. The nominate race cafer is found in Peninsular India. Northeast Indian race wetmorei is between cafer, humayuni and bengalensis. about 20 cm in length, with a long tail. Sri Lankan race haemorrhous (=haemorrhousus[6]) has a dark mantle with narrow pale edges. Race humayuni is known to hybridize with Pycnonotus leucogenys and these hybrids were once described as a subspecies magrathi marked by their pale rumps and yellow-orange or pink vents.[9] In Eastern Myanmar there is hybridization with Pycnonotus aurigaster
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You're welcome Kevin. If it is the red-vented one it should be relatively common and you may get to see it again and check the vent. Here's the one I spotted very nearby:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/604...
Thank you Karen and Daniele for the information!!!!
Oh, and the feathers really are not like a sparrow. Very few, if any, have the uniform white edging to each feather that this bird has
I didn't see the second picture. I second red-vent. We used to have a small population of the red-whiskered in Arcadia California that the fish and game dept was trying to eradicate. Very invasive family of birds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-vented_...
I agree with Karen on bulbul. Feathers could be like that of the red-vented bulbul, which I've seen in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, so I'm assuming there might be some in nearby Doha... Did you see the vent? I seem to detect a tinge of orange there on your second pic.
Yeah could be but its feathers are so like a sparrow!!!
Looks like a bulbul of some type.