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 NT    Lagden's Bush-Shrike* Id (Atlas):
    Malaconotus lagdeni

Description (10)
Image of Lagden's Bush-Shrike
 

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1884)

Habitat
Middle strata and canopy of evergreen rainforest, semi-evergreen rainforest. Most numerous in undisturbed forest, but nevertheless occurs in lightly and sometimes heavily logged forest. From sea-level - 2,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Côte dIvoire (B) (NB), Ghana (B) (NB), Liberia (B) (NB), Rwanda (B) (NB), Sierra Leone (B) (NB), Uganda (B) (NB).

Unknown to Guinea.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NT
Habitat destruction and degradation through commercial logging, clearance for agriculture and subsistence-level timber harvesting, are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Lagden's Bushshrike (Malaconotus lagdeni) [XC651044]
     by id from Tabou, Bas-Sassandra District, Ivory Coast (song)

 
Lagden's Bushshrike (Malaconotus lagdeni) [XC847160]
     by Nature sounds by Simply Birding from Rubanda (near Luhizha), Rubanda, Mkoa wa Magharibi, Uganda (?)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Grey-headed Bush-Shrike (Malaconotus blanchoti) and Monteiro's Bush-Shrike (Malaconotus monteiri), with Fiery-breasted Bush-Shrike (Malaconotus cruentus) sometimes included in same group. Voice suggests that it is closest to Fiery-breasted Bush-Shrike (Malaconotus cruentus), with which it overlaps in range.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • lagdeni (Sharpe, 1884)   -  South-eastern Sierra Leone east to Ghana, possibly to Togo.
  • centralis Neumann, 1920   -  Eastern DRCongo, western Uganda and western Rwanda.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Lagdens Bush-Shrike (Malaconotus lagdeni) - 10 files


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