Red-whiskered Bulbul is widely distributed, mainly in southeastern Tibet, southern Yunnan, southern Guizhou, southwestern Guangxi, Guangdong, India, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan in China. , Bangladesh and Indochina. The Yala Province in southern Thailand holds an annual red-eared bulbul singing competition every March to reward the winning owners of the red-eared bulbul.

Chinese name: Red-eared Bulbul

Chinese alias: Gao cockscomb, Gao Guan bird, Gao Ji Guan, Heitou Gong, Gao Ji Lang, etc.

English name: Red-whiskeredBulbul

Binary name: Pycnonotusjocosus

Kingdom: Animalia 

Department: Phylum Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Subclass: Neornithes

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Pycnonotidae

Genus: Bulbul

Species: Red-eared Bulbul

Distribution: Southeastern Tibet, southern Yunnan, southern Guizhou, southwestern Guangxi, Guangdong, As well as India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Indochina.

The   adult bird has a total length of 20-22 cm, a wingspan of about 28 cm, and a weight of 23-42 grams . The top of the head and the occiput are black, with a long erect crest, a red patch behind the eyes, the cheeks are white, the cheek lines are black, the throat is white, and there is a black stripe on each side from the lower neck to the chest, and the back edge of the stripe turns. is brown. The upper body and tail feathers are brown, the outer tail feathers have white end spots, the lower body is white, and the tail coverts are red. Iris brown, mouth and feet black. The subspecies monticola has a complete black thorax. The plumage of the female is similar to that of the male, but the black feathers are replaced by dark brown. The rear of the sub-adult is black without red patches, and the tail coverts are brown. The call is a loud and continuous twitter call, a short and sweet whistle of two or three syllables wit-t-waet; also a pleasing prroop. [1]

Black from the forehead to the top of the head, with a towering black crest on the top of the head, and a dark red feather cluster behind the eyes, forming a red spot; the ear feathers and cheeks are white, immediately below the red spot. The rest of the upper body, such as the coverts on the back of the neck, back to the tail, is brown or earthy brown, and some specimens have brown-red feather edges. The tail is dark brown or dark brown. Except for the central 1-2 pairs of tail feathers, the rest of the tail feathers have a white terminal spot, and the white spot expands outward as it goes to the outer tail feathers, until the entire end. The two wing coverts are the same color as the back, the flight feathers are dark brown or dark brown, and the outer parts are slightly decorated with earthy yellow or light earthy brown. Cheeks, throat white, and a thin black line between the white of the cheeks, extending from the base of the mouth along the leukoplakia to the back of the ear feathers. The rest of the underparts are white or nearly white, with light brown or light smoky brown on both flanks, with a wide dark brown or black transverse band on each side of the thorax, extending from the lower neck through the thoracic side to the middle of the thorax, and tapering in shape. Finally, it is interrupted in the center of the thorax, forming an incomplete thorax, and the tail coverts are bright red or orange-red. Iris brown, brown, reddish-brown or dark brown, mouth and feet black.

Size measurement: body weight ♂26-40g, ♀28-43g; body length ♂175-210mm, ♀165-223mm; mouth peak ♂12-15mm, ♀12-15mm; wing ♂80-92mm , ♀81-98mm; Tail ♂83-99mm, ♀81-100mm; ♂19.5-24mm, ♀19-23mm.

Resident birds. It inhabits rain forests below 1,500 meters above sea level, and is also found in forest edges and courtyards near villages, or in riverside shrubs. Often in groups, lively and melodious. It likes to perch on protrusions, and often stands on the highest point of small trees and sings or chirps.

Diet: Omnivorous, but mostly plant-based. Common pecking of seeds, fruits, flowers and grasses of trees and shrubs. Especially the fruit of trees and shrubs such as banyan, tangli, heather, and blue indigo. Animal food is mainly Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera and Hymenoptera and other insects and insect larvae.

Habits: Lively, often in small groups of more than 10, sometimes in large groups of more than 20-30, and sometimes mixed with red-breasted Bulbul and yellow-breasted Bulbul. Active and forage in tree canopies or shrubs most of the day. Good chirping, the chirping sound is light and pleasant, similar to the sound of 'cloth-cloth-cloth' or 'wei-kick-wow'. It usually chirps while jumping for food.

The red-eared bulbul has a relatively well-known voice, and the newly arrived red-eared bulbul has a relatively simple call , feeding for a period of time will improve, and the singing during estrus will be more moving. Raw birds of the red-eared bulbul can be domesticated in dark board cages for a week and then reared in thrush cages.

The main feed of the red-eared bulbul is 6 parts of bract powder, 1 part of soybean meal, 1 part of egg, fish, 2 portions of meat pulp mixed together, egg rice (500 grams of rice is sautéed with simmering yellow, beat in 5 eggs), apple and banana are used as green feed , tomato, vegetables, etc., appropriate supply of insects. Or use 20% soybean flour, 50% corn flour, 10% fish meal or silkworm chrysalis powder, and 20% cooked egg yolk to make a mixed feed every day, and then add vegetables, fruits, mealworms, etc. Water is added to the water basin twice a day, eggs and rice are supplied in sufficient quantities, and powder and green feed are fed twice in the morning and afternoon to prevent deterioration in summer, and the remaining feed should be removed in time 1 hour after feeding.