Red-tailed greenbul

The red-tailed greenbul (Criniger calurus), also known as the red-tailed bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae, native to the African tropical rainforest.

Red-tailed greenbul
In Kakum NP, Ghana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Criniger
Species:	C. calurus
Binomial name
Criniger calurus (Cassin, 1856)
Synonyms
Criniger swainsoni Criniger verreauxi Trichophorus calurus

Taxonomy and systematics

Alternate names for the red-tailed greenbul include the red-tailed bearded bulbul, red-tailed bulbul and thick-billed red-tailed greenbul.

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized.^[2] Additionally, the white-bearded greenbul was also originally described as a subspecies of the red-tailed greenbul:^[3][4]

• Gold Coast red-tailed bulbul (C. c. verreauxi) - Sharpe, 1871: Originally described as a separate species and alternatively named as the Sierra Leone red-tailed bulbul. Found from Senegal to south-western Nigeria
• C. c. calurus - (Cassin, 1856): Found from southern Nigeria to western Democratic Republic of Congo
• C. c. emini - Chapin, 1948: Found from north-eastern Angola and western Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda and western Tanzania