Grey-green Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus bocagei)

Other Scientific Names
Malaconotus bocagei [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)], Chlorophoneus bocagei

Other Names (World)
Bocage's Bush-Shrike, Grey-green Bush-shrike, Gray-green Bush-shrike, Grey Bush-shrike, Gray Bush-shrike, Bocage's Bushshrike, Gray-green Bushshrike

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Reichenow, 1894)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, heavily degraded former forest, dry savanna and plantations. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Rwanda (E) (B), Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (36)...)

Bocage's Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus bocagei) [XC453396]
by from Zimmerman Plot, Kakamega Forest, Kenya (call)

Bocage's Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus bocagei) [XC735135]
by Peter Boesman from Shibuye (near Mukumu), Shinyalu, Kakamega County, Kenya (call, song)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Malaconotus or in Chlorophoneus. Has also been placed in Dryoscopus and Laniarius. May be closely allied with Olive Bush-Shrike (Chlorophoneus olivaceus). A specimen from Entebbe (Uganda), named as Chlorophoneus andaryae, was probably a hybrid with Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike (Telophorus sulfureopectus).

Proposed subspecies ansorgei (described from N'dalatando, in north-western Angola), supposedly with slightly paler back, treated as synonym of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

bocagei (Reichenow, 1894) - South-eastern Nigeria (Obudu Plateau) and southern Cameroon south to north-western Angola.
jacksoni (Sharpe, 1901) - North-eastern and south-central DRCongo, Uganda and western Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

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