Bare-faced bulbul
| 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) | |
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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.