Biology:Many-colored bushshrike

From HandWiki
Short description: Species of bird

Many-colored bushshrike
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Malaconotidae
Genus: Chlorophoneus
Species:
C. multicolor
Binomial name
Chlorophoneus multicolor
(Gray, 1845)
Synonyms

Telophorus multicolor
Malaconotus multicolor

The many-colored bushshrike or many-coloured bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) is a species of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

The black-fronted bushshrike (C. nigrifrons) of southern and eastern Africa is sometimes included in this species.

It is sparsely present across the African tropical rainforest.

  • C. m. multicolor (Gray, GR, 1845) โ€” Sierra Leone to Cameroon;
  • C. m. batesi Sharpe, 1908 โ€” southern Cameroon to western Uganda and northwestern Angola;
  • C. m. graueri (Hartert, 1908) โ€” Albertine Rift montane forests.
Live bird

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References

  • Sinclair, Ian & Ryan, Peter (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.

Wikidata ☰ Q27075291 entry