Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
A striking gray, yellow, and green bushshrike with a dark eye, an orange chest, and a distinctive yellow forehead and short eyebrow. The juvenile lacks an eyebrow. Singles and pairs occasionally join mixed-species flocks in thornveld and broadleaf woodland, riparian forest, and thickets. The species creeps slowly through the mid-canopy of trees, hunting insects and small vertebrates, and is often first detected by its loud ringing “what-to-tooo-dooo” song and scolding “skeeeeet” calls and clicks. The larger Gray-headed Bushshrike differs from Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike by having a more robust bill, a pale-yellow eye, and no eyebrows.
分类信息
- 学名
- Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- 命名信息
- (Lesson, RP, 1831)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Malaconotidae
- 属
- Chlorophoneus
分布与栖息地
The orange-breasted bushshrike is widespread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa (relatively absent from most of Central, Southern and the Horn of Africa). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna and moist savanna. It is not a migrant species.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
The bushshrike eats mainly insects, such as beetles, caterpillars, bees, ants, and wasps.
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- stable
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