Tuesday, December 3, 2013

>Campephaga flava (Black Cuckooshrike)

Black Cuckooshrike


Black Cuckooshrike
Female in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, coastal Kenya
Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Campephagidae
Genus:Campephaga
Species:C. flava
Binomial name
Campephaga flava
Vieillot, 1817
The Black Cuckooshrike (Campephaga flava) is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana,Burundi,
 Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi,
 Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

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