Large Woodshrike

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Large Woodshrike
at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Prionopidae Genus: Tephrodornis Species: T. gularis
Binomial name
Tephrodornis gularis (Raffles, 1822)

The Large Woodshrike (Tephrodornis gularis) is a species in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae. The woodshrikes were formerly placed in the Campephagidae (cuckooshrikes) sometimes. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

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• BirdLife International 2004. Tephrodornis gularis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.

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at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.