On cold winter mornings the bulbuls come squawking their full-throated calls as they swoop onto bird-feeders, their white-tipped gray breast feathers appearing frosted by the chill.

An examination of the bird droppings revealed that 14.3 percent of the snails that had passed through the white-eyes' guts and 16.4 percent of those that traveled the brown-eared bulbul's guts ...

White eared Bulbul (photo by Ahmed Saeed Khamis) The White-eared Bulbul, Pycnonotus leucotis, has a black head and throat with a large white patch on the cheeks and yellow undertail-coverts.

Today, we also see the house crow, common mynah, pied mynah, red-vented bulbul, rose-tinged parakeet, alexandrine parakeet and white-eared bulbul. Transformation ...

The count saw an increase of 16% compared to last year. Notably, rare species like White Eared Bulbul and Blue Bearded Bee Eater were sighted for the first time.

The bird is called the streak-eared bulbul, and it’s common in Southeast Asia. One type, with red eyes, is called Pycnonotus blanfordi blanfordi, and lives in Myanmar.