The white-eared bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis) has a black head with a bright white cheek patch which loosely looks like an ear. It has a yellow vent and white tail tip. White-eared Bulbuls feed on fruits mostly on trees, such as wild figs and dates, as well as berries and nectar but like other bulbuls they are excellent flyers, quick to dart about and manoeuvre in and out of tight areas and will hover while hawking insects. Formerly, thought to be a subspecies of the Himalayan Bulbul, it is now considered to belong to a superspecies along with the Himalayan bulbul, white-spectacled bulbul, African red-eyed bulbul, Cape bulbul, and the common bulbul.
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