🦋 Family

Malaconotidae

20 species · Animals

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Animalia › Chordata › Aves › Passeriformes › Malaconotidae

Telophorus zeylonus (Linnaeus, 1766)

The bokmakierie is an endemic southern African bushshrike species with distinctive yellow and black plumage.

Telophorus viridis (Vieillot, 1817)

Telophorus viridis is a Malaconotidae bird species also called four-coloured bushshrike, with multiple subspecies across parts of Africa.

Laniarius erythrogaster (Cretzschmar, 1829)

Black-headed gonolek is a distinctively colored bush-shrike species of bird found across multiple African countries.

Laniarius barbarus (Linnaeus, 1766)

This is a detailed description of the yellow-crowned gonolek (Laniarius barbarus) covering its appearance and ecology.

Laniarius atrococcineus (Burchell, 1822)

Crimson-breasted shrike (Laniarius atrococcineus) is a black-bodied bird with scarlet underparts found in southern African dry thornbush habitats.

Laniarius funebris (Hartlaub, 1863)

The slate-colored boubou (Laniarius funebris) is a dark grey bird species in the Malaconotidae family found in East Africa.

Laniarius bicolor (Hartlaub, 1857)

Laniarius bicolor is a large passerine bird found across multiple countries in central and southern Africa, living in a range of thicket and forest habitats.

Laniarius ferrugineus (Gmelin, 1788)

Laniarius ferrugineus, the southern boubou, is a 20–22 cm African bird with distinct plumage differences between sexes and ages.

Laniarius major (Hartlaub, 1848)

The tropical boubou (Laniarius major) is a large African bushshrike found across much of sub-Saharan Africa, classed as least concern by the IUCN.

Malaconotus blanchoti Stephens, 1826

Malaconotus blanchoti is an African bushshrike that hunts large prey across various wooded and forested habitats.

Dryoscopus gambensis (Lichtenstein, 1823)

Dryoscopus gambensis, the northern puffback, is a Malaconotidae bird species found in northern sub-Saharan Africa.

Dryoscopus cubla (Latham, 1802)

Dryoscopus cubla is a small African puffback bird with distinct sexual dimorphism, found across southern sub-Saharan wooded habitats.

Tchagra australis (A.Smith, 1836)

The brown-crowned tchagra is a Malaconotidae bird found across much of sub-Saharan Africa in dry forests and dry savanna.

Tchagra tchagra (Vieillot, 1816)

Southern tchagra (Tchagra tchagra) is a 17-21 cm passerine bird with distinct plumage and three described subspecies.

Tchagra senegalus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Tchagra senegalus, the black-crowned tchagra, is a 19–22 cm long African bushshrike with distinct plumage and specific behaviours.

Nilaus afer (Latham, 1802)

Nilaus afer, the brubru, is a small African passerine bird that lives in dry open woodland across different regions of the continent.

Telophorus cruentus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828)

Telophorus cruentus, the rosy-patched bushshrike, is a Malaconotidae bird native to dry shrubland in northeast Africa.

Bocagia minuta (Hartlaub, 1858)

Marsh tchagra (Bocagia minuta) is a passerine bird native to tropical and subtropical central African wetlands.

Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus (Lesson, 1831)

Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus, the orange-breasted bushshrike, is a non-migratory Malaconotidae bird found across much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Chlorophoneus olivaceus (Shaw, 1809)

Chlorophoneus olivaceus, the olive bushshrike, is a Malaconotidae bird found in southern African forests and shrublands that forages for insects in canopies.

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