Purple-throated Cuckoo-shrike

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Purple-throated Cuckoo-shrike
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Campephagidae Genus: Campephaga Species: C. quiscalina
Binomial name
Campephaga quiscalina Finsch, 1869

The Purple-throated Cuckoo-shrike (Campephaga quiscalina) is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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• BirdLife International 2004. Campephaga quiscalina. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.