Placid greenbul

Placid greenbul
In Malawi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Infraorder: Passerides
Family: Pycnonotidae
Genus: Phyllastrephus
Species:
P. placidus
Binomial name
Phyllastrephus placidus
(Shelley, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Phyllastrephus cabanisi placidus
  • Phyllastrephus fischeri placidus
  • Phyllastrephus modestus placidus
  • Phyllastrephus sucosus placidus
  • Xenocichla placida

The placid greenbul (Phyllastrephus placidus) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in eastern Africa from eastern Kenya through Tanzania to north-eastern Zambia, Malawi and north-western Mozambique.[1] In the Taita Hills (southeast Kenya), habitat features associated with nest‐site selection vary among forest fragments that are exposed to different levels of habitat disturbance.[2]

They are insectivores.[3] They do not exhibit sexual dimorphism, except a slight size difference.[3] Their lifespan is relatively long, and can last up to 19 years.[3]

  1. ^ "Bulbuls « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  2. ^ Loock, Dries Van De; Strubbe, Diederik; Thijs, Koen W.; Peer, Thomas Van De; Neve, Liesbeth De; Githiru, Mwangi; Matthysen, Erik; Lens, Luc (2020). "Flexible nest-site selection under anthropogenic habitat change in an Afrotropical understorey insectivore". Ibis. 162 (1): 187–200. doi:10.1111/ibi.12691. hdl:10067/1564080151162165141. ISSN 1474-919X. S2CID 91853491.
  3. ^ a b c "Reproductive Success, II", Population Ecology of the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker. (MPB-24), Volume 24, Princeton University Press, pp. 140–165, 2020-03-31, doi:10.2307/j.ctvx5wc1m.9, retrieved 2024-02-14