| Common Woodshrike | |
|---|---|
| at Sindhrot in Vadodara district of Gujarat, India. | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Prionopidae |
| Genus: | Tephrodornis |
| Species: | T. pondicerianus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tephrodornis pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789) |
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The Common Woodshrike (Tephrodornis pondicerianus) is a species in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae. The woodshrikes were formerly placed in the Campephagidae (cuckooshrikes) sometimes. It is found in southern Asia where it occurs in Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. The subspecies in Sri Lanka is sometimes considered a separate species, the Sri Lanka Woodshrike (T. affinis).