Bare-faced bulbul

The bare-faced bulbul (Nok hualon) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It was newly described from central Laos in 2009. It is one of the very few Asian songbirds with a bald (featherless) face and is the first new species of bulbul to be described from Asia in almost a century.

Bare-faced bulbul
Bare-faced bulbuls in Na Hin National Park, Laos
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pycnonotidae
Genus: Nok
Fuchs et al., 2018
Species:
N. hualon
Binomial name
Nok hualon
(Woxvold, Duckworth & Timmins, 2009)
Synonyms
  • Pycnonotus hualon
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