Iain Woxvold et la découverte du Bulbul chauve

The Bare-faced Bulbul (Pycnonotus hualon) is a species of bulbul described from Laos in 2009. It is one of the very few Asian songbirds with a bald face and is the first new species of bulbul to be described from Asia in over a century. The mainly olive-green Bare-faced Bulbul is distinctive in having a bare pink face with blueish skin around the eyes. The specimens so far collected were around 20 cm in length and weighed 32-40 g. The breast and belly are fawn-grey, the uppersides olive and the throat is off-white. The Bare-faced Bulbul is known only from the limestone karst region near Pha Lom in central Laos. The area is characterised by steep terrain with bare limestone and low deciduous trees and shrubs. It seems likely that the species is restricted entirely to this habitat, but the species may occur at other sites in Laos that have similar habitats.
The full paper describing the Bald-faced Bulbul: An unusual new bulbul (Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae) from the Limestone karst of Lao PDR by I. A. Woxvold, J. W. Duckworth and R. J. Timmins is available on line.