Fiery-breasted Bushshrike
Malaconotus cruentus(Lesson, RP, 1832)
English (US) Fiery-breasted Bushshrike
The Fiery-breasted Bushshrike (Malaconotus cruentus) 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 Malaconotidae (Bushshrikes and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Guinea and Sierra Leone to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and far western UgandaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Malaconotus cruentus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Fiery-breasted Bushshrike
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Vanga cruenta
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1832)
- Type locality
- Cape of Good Hope, or rather Cape Coast, West Africa = Cape Coast, on Gold Coast, Neumann, 1899, Journ. f. Orn., 47, p. 389.
- Original description
- Voyage aux Indes Orientales par le Nord de l'Europe, les provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Arménie et la Perse (etc.). Zoologie pt.4 p.256 pl.65
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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