Doherty's Bushshrike
Telophorus dohertyi(Rothschild, LW, 1901)
English (US) Doherty's Bushshrike
The Doherty's Bushshrike (Telophorus dohertyi) 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: mountains of Rwanda, Burundi, western Uganda, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Telophorus dohertyi
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Doherty's Bushshrike
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1901)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Laniarius dohertyi
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1901)
- Type locality
- Nandi Escarpment (error) = Kikuyu, mountains above Escarpment station [i. e. Kikuyu Escarpment], Kenya (Hartert, 1902, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 623).
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 11 p.52
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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