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Alternative name: Red-billed Helmetshrike

Prionops retzii
Photo by Widus
Mkuze Game Reserve, South Africa.

Identification

Distribution

Africa

Taxonomy

Prionops retzii has four subspecies:[1]

  • P. r. graculinus
  • Southern Somalia to eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania
  • P. r. tricolor
  • Tanzania to Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and northern KwaZulu-Natal
  • P. r. nigricans
  • Angola to north-western Zambia and south-eastern DRC
  • P. r. retzii
  • Transvaal to Zimbabwe, southern Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Angola

Habitat

Forests, mangrove forests, and moist shrubland.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

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