Red-billed helmetshrike

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Red-billed helmetshrike
Red-billed Helmetshrike - Bobiri - Ghana 14 S4E3122 (16010070258), crop.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vangidae
Genus: Prionops
Species:
P. caniceps
Binomial name
Prionops caniceps
(Bonaparte, 1850)

The red-billed helmetshrike or chestnut-bellied helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps) is a species of bird in the Vanga family, Vangidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.

It is native to the Guinean Forests of West Africa. In Central Africa it is replaced by the rufous-bellied helmet-shrike (P. rufiventris) ; both are sometimes regarded as two subspecies of the "chestnut-bellied helmetshrike".

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2017). "Prionops caniceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T22730676A112332781. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22730676A112332781.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.