Belyaev D.A., Shokhrin V.P., Darman YU.A., Maslov M.V., Khodakov A.P., Vyalkov A.V., Rogal A.P.
Amurian zoological journal 2022; 14(4): 620–631
The article presents an analysis of the records of the brown-eared bulbul Microscelis (Hypsypetes) amaurotis in the south of the Russian Far East over the period from 2016 until 2022. Over this time, the number of encounters of these birds increased many times. If during the period from 1960 to 2016 more than 20 registrations were known in Primorye, then over the past six and a half years their number exceeded 370. Despite this, all encounters are recorded in the period from September to May, and cases of nesting of the brown-eared bulbul in Russia have not yet been registered. The article also examines the role of this species as a distributor of ornithochore plants seeds.
