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Madagascar Cuckooshrike - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by edenwatcher
Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, September 2010
Coracina cinerea

Identification

  • Black head
  • Light grey underparts
  • Dark grey upperparts

Female has dark grey head.

Distribution

Madagascar.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Two subspecies recognized[1]:

  • C. c. cinera in northern and eastern Madagascar
  • C. c. pallida in central, western and south-western Madagascar

Habitat

Dry and moist evergreen forests and forest edges.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of a variety of invertebrates, including beetles, butterflies and moths, crickets etc.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v11.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)
  3. Wikipedia

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