Rodrigues bulbul

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Rodrigues bulbul
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Infraorder:
Passerides
Family: Pycnonotidae
Genus: Hypsipetes
Species:
H. cowlesi
Binomial name
Hypsipetes cowlesi
Hume, 2015

The Rodrigues bulbul (Hypsipetes cowlesi) is an extinct bird which was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, the easternmost of the Mascarene Islands group of the western Indian Ocean.[1] It is known only from subfossil remains collected in 1974.[2]

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