Rodrigues bulbul

{{Short description|Extinct species of bird}}

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| status = EX

| genus = Hypsipetes

| species = cowlesi

| authority = Hume, 2015

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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.{{Cite journal|doi=10.2989/00306525.2015.1067651|title=A new subfossil bulbul (Aves: Passerines: Pycnonotidae) from Rodrigues Island, Mascarenes, south-western Indian Ocean|journal=Ostrich|volume=86|issue=3|pages=247–260|year=2015|last1=Hume|first1=Julian P|s2cid=83835055}} It is known only from subfossil remains collected in 1974.{{cite journal |author1=Warren, Ben H. |author2=Bermingham, Eldredge |author3=Prys-Jones, Robert P. |author4=Thebaud, Christophe. |year=2005 |title=Tracking island colonization history and phenotypic shifts in Indian Ocean bulbuls (Hypsipetes: Pycnonotidae) |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=271–287 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00492.x |doi-access=free }}