Many-colored Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor)
About the Many-colored Bushshrike
The many-colored bushshrike or many-coloured bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) is a species of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae. The black-fronted bushshrike (C. nigrifrons) of southern and eastern Africa is sometimes included in this species. It is sparsely present across the African tropical rainforest. C. m. multicolor (Gray, GR, 1845) — Sierra Leone to Cameroon; C. m. batesi Sharpe, 1908 — southern Cameroon to western Uganda and northwestern Angola; C. m. graueri (Hartert, 1908) — Albertine Rift montane forests. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Sinclair, Ian & Ryan, Peter (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.
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Listed as recorded in Ghana, Uganda in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.