Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, high altitude shrubland. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest and heavily degraded former forest. From 1,500 - 3,350 m.
Doherty's Bushshrike (Telophorus dohertyi) [XC467714]
by James Bradley from Castle Forest, Mt Kenya, Kenya (alarm call, call)
Doherty's Bushshrike (Telophorus dohertyi) [XC608580]
by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from Ruhija, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Kisoro, Western Region, Uganda (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Molecular-genetic studies suggest that genus is more closely allied to Chlorophoneus and Laniarius than to the clade formed by Malaconotus, Dryoscopus and Tchagra, although has been thought to link arboreal Chlorophoneus and semi-terrestrial Tchagra. Forms a superspecies with Gorgeous Bush-Shrike (Telophorus viridis) and both have conventionally been grouped in Chlorophoneus, but studies of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA support their placement in present genus.