Marsh Tchagra (Bocagia minuta)
About the Marsh Tchagra
The marsh tchagra or blackcap bush-shrike (Bocagia minuta) is a species of passerine bird placed in the monotypic genus Bocagia in the family Malaconotidae. It is native to marshes in the tropics and subtropics of Africa. It is sometimes placed in the genus Tchagra. The marsh tchagra was described by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub in 1858 and given the binomial name Telephonus minutus. The species is now placed in the monotypic genus Bocagia that was introduced by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1894. Three subspecies are recognised. B. m. minuta (Hartlaub, 1858) – West Africa and African tropics: Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, west Kenya and northwest Tanzania B. m. reichenowi (Neumann, 1900) – east Tanzania, south Malawi, east Zimbabwe and Mozambique
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 9 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-ND · 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Other birds you can hear here
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimprecording
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordiirecording
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalusrecording
- Bronze MannikinSpermestes cucullatarecording
- BrubruNilaus aferrecording
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collarisrecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.