Yellowish-olive sides of the head and paler ear-coverts help identify the Olive Bulbul. It uses moist evergreen broadleaf forest and tall secondary growth, and mainly eats berries.
The sides of the head are yellowish olive, with paler feathers over the ear-coverts.
It uses moist evergreen broadleaf and semi-evergreen forest, as well as tall secondary growth. It is usually seen in pairs or small parties, eats mainly berries, and occasionally takes insects.
Birds observed in Tak province, Thailand, had yellowish-olive plumage, dark reddish-grey irises and undertail-coverts darker than the belly.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.