Black-winged flycatcher-shrike

Black-winged flycatcher-shrike
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tephrodornithidae
Genus: Hemipus
Species: H. hirundinaceus
Binomial name
Hemipus hirundinaceus
(Temminck, 1822)

The black-winged flycatcher-shrike (Hemipus hirundinaceus) is a species of bird in the flycatcher-shrike genus, Hemipus. It is traditionally included in the cuckooshrike family, but most taxonomists place it with the woodshrikes. It is found in the Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sunda Islands, occurring in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

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