Bird ID Help Please

Interesting story about this bird which was in the Asian Bird aviary.

While looking at some caged birds this one landed on my right shoulder and then started pecking the sides of my ear and then started pecking inside my ear! After a while I put my left hand up to the side of my head and it hopped onto my hand and proceeded to bite the ends of my fingers and peck some dry skin off my hand. I extended my left hand as far as possible and held my camera as far back as possible to get a picture but it was still too close for the minimum focusing distance of my zoom lens. so I put it back on my shoulder and it stayed there for a while as I walked around the aviary. I eventually got a photo after it had flown off.

16 May 2013

It surtainly is a bulbul but which species I have to look in the books

Thanks VC, I believe there's about 120 different species!

Now, if only JBP had identification signs for all their birds, life would be so much easier.

Probably not possible ! Not because they don't know their birds or it to expensive or otherwise but simply because their are visitors which want to get rid of their pet-bird, take it to the Free-flight aviary in a zoo and release it without letting the zoo know !
Seen the behaviour of the bird I'm quite sure this bird is also a former pet !
Next to the problem that the zoo don't know it's there - that's prop. why there is no sign - there is also the problem that such birds can bring in desseases into the collection and don't fit into the bird-communitie already there.
This problem is not only something from Jurong but at Walsrode for example we had to catch-out regulary canaries or budgies out of the tropical free-flight and now and then also more rarer ( softbills ) were suddenly in the aviary !

I'd say this is a Yellow-vented bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier

yes it is a yellow-vented bulbul, very common throughout southeast Asia

Thanks Hevden, thanks Chlidonias.