Yellow-browed Bulbul Acritillas indica Scientific name definitions

The Yellow-browed Bulbul is a trim, brightly colored, uncrested bulbul with bright yellow underparts and greenish-yellow upper parts. The bird is endemic to the wet-zones of peninsular India and Sri Lanka, namely the Western Ghats and a few peaks of the Eastern Ghats in India, and the central highlands of Sri Lanka. It prefers humid, dense understory; it is abundant in undisturbed forests, but is also found in forest edges and buffer zones. This bulbul is gregarious, and frequently is found in flocks of 2–8 individuals, and also regularly participates in mixed-species flocks. The Yellow-browed Bulbul forages within the sub-canopy and understory, where it consumes a variety of berries and insects. The Yellow-browed Bulbul is often placed in a monotypic genus, Acritillas, and it appears to be most closely related to the species in the genus Hemixos, which are found in the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and south China. Three subspecies are recognized— icterica found in India, guglielmi found in Sri Lanka, and indica found in India and Sri Lanka. The Yellow-browed Bulbul is morphologically distinct from sympatric bulbuls, with the sexes and even subspecies showing only minor plumage differences. The call consists of cheery, varied, and near-continuous whistles. The nest is distinct from all other bulbuls of the region, and is a cup of fibers suspended from a branch as a hammock; the clutch size is usually two eggs, and rarely three. Although the species does not face any direct conservation threat, anthropogenic disturbance negatively affects population abundance.