Free ranging Bulbul (8454349435)

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Description: This is not one of the zoo exhibits, rather is it a visitor, just like us. Here is a free ranging bulbul on a fence at the Al Ain zoo. Bulbuls are a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands of the Indian Ocean There are about 130 species in around 24 genera. Bulbuls eat a wide range of different foods, ranging from fruit to seeds, nectar, small insects and other arthropods and even small vertebrates. (Al Ain, UAE, Dec. 2012). Date: 1 December 2012, 00:00. Source: Free ranging Bulbul. Author: shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates.