Red vented BulBul

[Laurie Living <>]

Hi there

I raised the question of the red-vented bulbul on birding-aus a year or so
ago and am eager to see one. You may find my notes in the birding-aus archive
and am interested in your ideas..

Nick Day has a small sketch of the red-vented bulbul in S and D field guide.

It seems the red-vented was released along with red-whiskered bulbul as part
of the 'colonialisation' policy of the 19th century but it didn't survive
as well as the red-whiskered has.

The last record I could find was by a  BOCA member near Melbourne in 1987.

Red-whiskered bulbuls haven't survived very well in Melbourne either [in
comparison with Sydney and south of that city] and occasionally turn up along
the Yarra, Kew, Banyule Flats and a few other places in the suburbs.

Here in the Dandenong Ranges there are at least two small populations, one
in FernTree Gully [reached up to 8 birds and breeding in 1999] and two or
three birds in The Basin.

The FernTree Gully birds wrestled for food [they seemed to like grapes]and
territory in the habitat of blackbirds, indian mynahs, red and brush wattlebirds
and song thrush.

On recent trips to Borneo, Malaysia and Java I saw many bulbuls but not one
red-whiskered. Someone suggested they had all been caught and caged because
their calls-singing was prized.

Cheers

Laurie Living

 

Mules, Michael wrote:

As far as I'm aware (and I could well be wrong), Red-vented Bulbul is extinct in Australia.  Red-whiskered is all we have left.

 

Slater etal list it as probably extinct, and none of the subsequent fieldguides (P&K, S&D, Morecombe) have an entry for it.

 

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: K,K&E Lindsay [m("bigpond.com","kate.corbyn");">]
Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2003 5:12 PM
To: Birding Aus
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Red vented BulBul

Has anyone in Melb seen a red vented Bul Bul?

I am just interested.

because evrey time I visit Melb im always looking for red vents,and neva have any luk.

So Im wondering if anyone has seen one.

Cheers

Kurtis

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