Orphée Bulbul

The bulbul orphée ( Pycnonotus jocosus ), sometimes called Cop , is a bird of the family of the pycnonotidés .

Distribution

The bulbul orphée is indigenous tropical Asia, India with the Southeast Asia while passing by the China. It was introduced in News-Wales of the South and Florida.

It was also imported with the Mauritius and from there with the Réunion, where it is regarded as an animal plague plundering the cultures and in particular the fruit trees. It there is usually called blackbird of Maurice and is shown to make run a danger of extinction to the Bulbul de Bourbon as for him endemic, a bird which it competes with.

Habitat

The bulbul orphée appreciates the fields and the zones only slightly timbered or covered of bushes and shrubs. One can more easily hear it than to see it, but it also happens that he appears on a branch in all his splendor. It builds its nest in the bushes and brooded includes/understands two to three eggs classically.

Description

The bulbul orphée makes approximately twenty centimetres length. It presents a brown and ventral dorsal plumage blanchâtre. A line sinks short in top of its chest starting from the top of the back.

One distinguishes it in particular with his black peak pointing forwards, with his red mask and a black line drawing of fine moustache on his white throat. Its long tail is brown except close to the belly, where it is red.

The two sexes have a similar plumage, but that of the young people is duller.

Behavior

The flight of the bulbul orphée is a succession of jumps which makes him resemble that of a peak.

This sparrow nourishes fruits, of nectar and insects.

Its cry is powerful and easy to recognize because piercing. Its song is a reprobatory chatter.

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