Yellow-vented Bulbul

Description:

Main features: About 20cm head to tail; slight crest; white face; yellow under tail coverts. Adult: Olive brown crown, nape, underparts; white side of head, eyebrow, throat, belly; lores black; breast whitish streaked brown; black bill, feet, eyes. No white on tail.

Habitat:

Backyard, spotted on a branch of Poinciana plant (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) about 5 feet above ground.

Notes:

Pycnonotus goiavier (Scopoli, 1886), the Yellow-vented Bulbul, is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is resident breeder in southeast Asia from southern Thailand and Cambodia south to Borneo and the Philippines. It is found in a wide variety of open habitats, but not deep forest. It is one of the most common birds in cultivated areas. They appear to be nomadic, roaming from place to place regularly. Wikipedia.