Red-billed Helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps)

Other Names (World)
Red-billed Helmetshrike, Chestnut-bellied Helmet-shrike, Red-billed Shrike, Red-billed Helmet-shrike, Western Helmet-shrike

Family
Vangidae (Vangas And Allies)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest, subtropical and tropical moist shrubland. From sea-level - 1,450 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

Red-billed Helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps) [XC641588]
by Paul Lenrum\u00e9 from Parc National de la For\u00eat du Banco, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (call)

Red-billed Helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps) [XC345107]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from For\u00eat de la Lama, Benin (call)

Subspecies
Red-billed Helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps) and Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike (Prionops rufiventris) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Prionops caniceps following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies, and often considered conspecific, with Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike (Prionops rufiventris).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

caniceps (Bonaparte, 1850) - South-western Mali (including Mandingues Mts), Guinea and Sierra Leone east to Ghana and southern Togo.
harterti (Neumann, 1908) - Benin, Nigeria and western Cameroon.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-billed Helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps) - 10 files

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