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  • noun Plural form of bulbul.

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Examples

  • He heard doves cooing, the whistling of bulbuls, and the complex song of the shama, which Rain had commented on.

    Beard 2010

  • Among land birds is a rich assortment consisting of warblers, babblers, bee-eaters, bulbuls, buntings, chats, partridges and quails.

    Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India 2009

  • Every Asian Glossy Starling and Purple-backed Starling, Common Myna and White-vented Myna has passed the word and arrived to feast, not to mention the local orioles and bulbuls.

    Distractions, distractions... Glenda Larke 2009

  • Every Asian Glossy Starling and Purple-backed Starling, Common Myna and White-vented Myna has passed the word and arrived to feast, not to mention the local orioles and bulbuls.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Glenda Larke 2009

  • Shanti made herself open her eyes and look at the alert-eyed bulbuls on the bakul tree to empty her mind of the images that crowded it.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • From her window she could see sociable tufted bulbuls trilling to each other from different branches of the bakul tree.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • From her window she could see sociable tufted bulbuls trilling to each other from different branches of the bakul tree.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Shanti made herself open her eyes and look at the alert-eyed bulbuls on the bakul tree to empty her mind of the images that crowded it.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Shanti made herself open her eyes and look at the alert-eyed bulbuls on the bakul tree to empty her mind of the images that crowded it.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • From her window she could see sociable tufted bulbuls trilling to each other from different branches of the bakul tree.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

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