Fun Bulbul Facts For Kids
The name ‘bulbul’ comes from the Hindi, Persian, or Arabic name, which directly refers to the common nightingale of the Muscicapidae family, known for its beautiful and powerful song. In English, however, the name refers collectively to the passerine birds of the Pycnonotidae family.Bulbuls are medium-sized passerine songbirds, which include the likes of the red-whiskered bulbul, greenbul, leaflove, bristlebill, and brown bull. The massive bulbul family is well-distributed across the Middle East and most of Africa, Indonesia, India, and tropical Asia, and as far north as Japan, or even further north....