Critically Endangered
Straw-headed Bulbul
Pycnonotus zeylanicus
Straw-headed Bulbul is a perching bird in the family Pycnonotidae (order Passeriformes) — Pycnonotus zeylanicus, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The perching bird
Published measurements include mass about 86.
Range and habitat
It is found from the Malay Peninsula to Borneo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, arable land, plantations, and rural gardens. It is threatened by habitat loss and poaching from humans.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
This trade is causing population reductions across the species' range and is a major barrier to its conservation. Due to this, the straw-headed bulbul was uplisted from endangered to critically endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2018.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Straw-headed Bulbul is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Straw-headed Bulbul, Wikidata item Q780707. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
