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Revision as of 20:11, 27 August 2011
Alternative name: Four-colored Bushshrike[1]
Includes Perrin's Bushshrike
- Telophorus viridis
Chlorophoneus viridis[2]
Identification
Length 19 cm; mass 37 g.
Adult male: Upperparts olive green; forehead and eyebrow yellow; lores black, with black stripe extending to broad breast-band forming a black gorget. Throat and upper breast red; belly yellow with red wash near gorget and on undertail coverts.
Adult female: Similar to the male, but the black gorget is narrower and does not extend to the lores.
Distribution
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Taxonomy
Telophorus viridis has four subspecies:[1]
- T. v. viridis
- T. v. nigricauda
- T. v. quartus
- Southern Malawi to Zimbabwe and Mozambique
- T. v. quadricolor
- Eastern Cape to Swaziland and north-eastern South Africa
Four-colored Bushshrike T. quadricolor recognised as a separate species by Gill and Donsker (2011); includes quartus and nigricauda.[3]
Habitat
Thicket.
Behaviour
A "skulker", generally remaining in the canopy, even when calling. Diet is mostly arthropods.
Vocalisation
A loud whistle; kong-koit or kong-kon-koweet.
References
- Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2011. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.9). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Gorgeous Bushshrike. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gorgeous_Bushshrike
