Diet: insectivore based on Wooller et al. 1990

Abundance: 0.40%

Habitats: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (1) only

Malaysia: Berkelah Hill Dipterocarp Rainforest Reserve Maran (thirty year old logged forest)

See also Pycnonotus, Pycnonotus atriceps, Pycnonotus aurigaster, Pycnonotus barbatus, Pycnonotus blanfordi, Pycnonotus brunneus, Pycnonotus cafer, Pycnonotus caffer, Pycnonotus capensis, Pycnonotus cyaniventris, Pycnonotus erythropthalmos, Pycnonotus eutilosus, Pycnonotus eutilotus, Pycnonotus finlaysoni, Pycnonotus goiavier, Pycnonotus gracilis, Pycnonotus jocosus, Pycnonotus jocusus, Pycnonotus leucotos, Pycnonotus melanicterus, Pycnonotus nigricans, Pycnonotus plumosus, Pycnonotus simplex, Pycnonotus sinensis, Pycnonotus sp., Pycnonotus tricolor, Pycnonotus urostictus, Pycnonotus virens