Yellow-eared Bulbul

The yellow-eared bulbul is an endemic resident breeder in the highlands of Sri Lanka, and the least common of the island's bulbuls. It is about 20 cm long with a long tail, olive upperparts, yellowish underparts, a grey crown, yellow ear tufts, a yellow patch below the eye, a white tuft in front of the eye and a white throat. Young birds are duller. Its flight is bouncing and woodpecker-like (Wikipedia, species account).

It is a bird of jungle and wooded farmland, quite readily found at Horton Plains, Piduruthalagala, Moonplains and Victoria Park in Nuwara Eliya. It nests in a bush, usually with two eggs, feeding on fruit and insects, and breeds around February to May and again August to October. Nationally Vulnerable (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012).