Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
Campephaga phoenicea(Latham, J, 1790)
English (US) Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
The Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike (Campephaga phoenicea) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Campephagidae (Cuckooshrikes) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Senegambia to southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, southward to northern Congo, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Campephaga phoenicea
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1790)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ampelis phoenicea
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1790)
- Type locality
- Africa = Gambia.
- Original description
- Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiæ; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. 1 p.367
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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