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Tchagra
Sign in to saveThe tchagras are passerine birds in the bushshrike family, which are closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and were once included in that group.
Species
Black-crowned Tchagra
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMalaconotidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 94
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Malaconotidae
- Collections
- CMNH, FMNH, WFVZ, ROM
- Recorded in
- Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
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The tchagras are passerine birds in the bushshrike family, which are closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and were once included in that group.
==Description== These are long-tailed birds, typically with a grey or grey-brown back, brown wings and grey and whitish underparts. The head pattern is distinctive, with a dark cap and black eyestripe separated by a white supercilium. The bill is strong and hooked.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tchagra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.