Many-colored bushshrike
| Many-colored bushshrike | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Malaconotidae |
| Genus: | Telophorus |
| Species: | T. multicolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Telophorus multicolor (Gray, 1845) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chlorophoneus multicolor | |
The many-colored bushshrike or many-coloured bushshrike (Telophorus multicolor) is a species of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.
It is found in western and central Africa where it occurs in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo and Uganda. The black-fronted bushshrike (T. nigrifrons) of southern and eastern Africa is sometimes included in this species.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Telophorus multicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- Sinclair, Ian & Ryan, Peter (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.