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12-457: 13°35′04″N 44°19′08″E  /  13.5844°N 44.3189°E  / 13.5844; 44.3189 This article about a location in the Taiz Governorate of Yemen is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Taiz Governorate Taiz ( Arabic : تَعِزّ , romanized :  Taʿizz ) is a governorate of Yemen . The governorate's capital Taiz ,

24-456: Is diverse. In the Tihamah region, there is only irrigated agriculture, with cotton , sorghum and sesame the chief crops. Inland, whilst these crops are still significant, a much wider range of crops can be grown on rainfall and through water storage. Mangoes , papayas and bananas are the major crops of the western escarpment, and further up coffee and khat are grown. Although wine

36-576: Is prohibited in Yemen because of its alcohol content, grapes are still grown to produce raisins in some areas. The governorate has many wild animals and birds. The most common wild animals in the governorate are hyaenas , rock hyrax , rabbits , hedgehog , monkeys . The most common wild birds are vultures , falcons , partridges , owls , pigeons , hoopoes , bulbuls . Mohsen Ayed , journalist and author [REDACTED] Media related to Taiz Governorate at Wikimedia Commons Official site of

48-526: Is sometimes used to refer to the " nightingale " as well as the bulbul, but the English word bulbul refers to the birds discussed in this article. A few species that were previously considered to be members of the Pycnonotidae have been moved to other families. Several Malagasy species that were formerly placed in the genus Phyllastrephus are now placed in the family Bernieridae . In addition,

60-553: The Indian Ocean. There are 166 species in 32 genera . While different species are found in a wide range of habitats, the African species are predominantly found in rainforest , whereas Asian bulbuls are predominantly found in more open areas. The family Pycnonotidae was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840 as a subfamily Pycnonotinae of the thrush family Turdidae . The Arabic word bulbul (بلبل)

72-442: The foothills to probably more than 1,000 millimetres (40 inches) near Jebel Saber. Temperatures in the highlands remain high during the daytime, but at the highest elevations they can fall dramatically to -5 °C (23 °F) overnight. The governorate has many mountains. Their height ranges between 1,000 and 3,200 metres. The most important mountains are Jabal Sabir, Jabal Habashi , Jabal Samaʿa , Jabal Qadas , Jabal As-Silw ,

84-438: The genus Nicator containing three African species is now placed in a separate family Nicatoridae . A study published in 2007 by Ulf Johansson and colleagues using three nuclear markers found that the genus Andropadus was non-monophyletic . In the subsequent revision, species were moved to three resurrected genera: Arizelocichla , Stelgidillas and Eurillas . Only the sombre greenbul ( Andropadus importunus ),

96-505: The governorate is part of the Tihamah coastal plain and has an exceedingly hot , humid and arid climate . The eastern half, however, is very mountainous , with the major peak being 3,070-metre-high Jabal Sabir , near Taiz city. These mountains trap the moisture created by an upper-level wind reversal between April and October, so that in the eastern half of the governorate annual rainfall increases from 200 millimetres (8 inches) in

108-576: The mountains of al-Wazi'iyah and the Mountains of Shar'ab and Maqbanah . There are many streams in Taiz governorate; known as wadi ( Arabic : وادي ), they are divided into perennial and temporary streams: Are the steams that only run in wet seasons: Taiz Governorate is divided into the following 23 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, and then further subdivided into villages: The agriculture of this governorate

120-472: The taiz governate Bulbul See text The bulbuls are members of a family , Pycnonotidae , of medium-sized passerine songbirds , which also includes greenbuls , brownbuls , leafloves , and bristlebills . The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands of

132-419: The third-largest city in Yemen, is among the most important commercial centres in the country, owing to its proximity to rich farmland and the important Red Sea port of Mocha. It also has an international airport , Taiz International Airport , with numerous services within Yemen and to neighbouring countries. For such a small area, Taiz Governorate has an extraordinarily diverse geography. The western half of

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144-585: Was retained in Andropadus . A study by Subir Shakya and Frederick Shelden published in 2017 found that species in the large genus  Pycnonotus formed several deeply divergent clades. The genus was split and six genera were resurrected to accommodate these clades. The family forms two main clades. One clade contains species that are only found in Africa; many of these have greenbul in the common name. The second clade contains mostly Asian species but includes

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